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Maybe You Can’t Trust a Midwife After All

The entrenched misogyny of the Church in the Middle Ages that we have witnessed (due to the fact that the people in charge: a. were celibate males who were terrified of women who might steal their chastity, and b. were celibate males who knew nothing about women) had a few concerns about midwives. You see, [...]

She’s a Witch! May We Burn Her?

[This post is slightly out of order. But it is Halloween season, so I couldn't resist.] As the dark ages drew to a close, the Church suddenly got into the medicine business. Which meant that men were suddenly competing with those medicos of the dark ages, the midwife. Midwives in medieval Europe often treated the [...]