Una lectura médica de las imágenes medievales del nacimiento/A Medical Interpretation of Medieval Birth Images

This paper deals with gynecological information present in medieval images. While the History of Medicine has carefully studied written sources concerning pregnant women, the Art History has not paid enough attention to obstetrical information of medieval images, especially when those ones had been...

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Published inAnales de historia del arte p. 91
Main Author Hernando, Irene González
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Madrid Universidad Complutense de Madrid 01.01.2010
Subjects
Art history
Births
Christianity
Gynecology
Science
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Summary:This paper deals with gynecological information present in medieval images. While the History of Medicine has carefully studied written sources concerning pregnant women, the Art History has not paid enough attention to obstetrical information of medieval images, especially when those ones had been made with doctrinal aims. For that reason, I will analyze three sorts of Christian pictures, Virgin Mary's, Jesus Christ's, and John's the Baptist's Birth, trying to get from them gynecological data about topics such as newborn children's wrapping, anatomical position of pregnant women during labour, and midwives' assistance. Briefly, I would like to study the mutual influence of Christian thought and Scientist knowledge, and how that interrelation was depicted in works of art. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0214-6452
1988-2491