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Niccoli, Ottavia, "«Menstruum, quasi monstruum»: parti mostruosi e tabu' mestruale nel '500", Quaderni storici, 44/2 (1980), 402-428.
- Resum
- Towards the middle of the 16th century the belief that conception during menstruation leads to the birth of monsters spread through Europe. This belief, even though it has an anthropological basis (the interdiction of menstruous women in nearly every culture), derives however from a particular historical situation and a well-defined series of cultural and religious factors. One of these is the great success enjoyed by the apocryphal fourth Esdra bible, which in a corrupted passage states that «menstruous women will give birth to monsters». Other contributory factors are the proliferation of teratological works and the increased rigidity of sexual morality in the greater part of Calvinist and Catholic Europe. When the link between theology and embryology weakens and disappears in the first half of the 17th century, the belief in the menstrual conception of monsters is no longer found in medical writings but survives in folklore, thus emphasizing the view of women and their genital functions as a source of impurity and corruption.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Ginecologia, obstetrícia i cosmètica
Història de la medicina
- URL
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/43776815?seq=1#page_sc ...
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