Telling Tales of Death in Childbirth: The Interface between Fiction and Medical Treatises in Early Modern France

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Notes

¹All translations from the French, unless otherwise stated, are by the author.

²See Berriot-Salvadore 1993, McTavish 2005, Tucker 2003 and Worth-Stylianou forthcoming.

³ See Darmon 1981 and Pinto-Correia 1997.

⁴ See Gélis 1984 and Gélis 1988 for France, and Wilson 1995 for England.

⁵ See Worth-Stylianou forthcoming, chs 2 and 3.

⁶ The explicit link between translations of the Bible into French and the diffusion of medical works in French is made in 1579 by the (Protestant) surgeon Cabrol in his defence of his friend Laurent Joubert's controversial Erreurs populaires of 1578. See Cabrol's letter in Joubert 1989.

⁷ See Perkins 1996, and the introduction by François Rouget and Colette Winn in Bourgeois 2000.

⁸ Both texts are reproduced in Bourgeois 2000.