Reproductive Pressure and Royal Couples
Medieval England and Scotland, ca. 1200-1400
Published on 31. December 2025
294 pages
978-1-80270-430-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores royal couples' experiences of and responses to fertility problems in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Situated in the history of infertility, it focuses on royal couples who were not generally infertile in the conventional sense, but who nonetheless experienced reproductive difficulties or heightened pressure to produce a child. It challenges perceptions of these couples' fertility by uncovering experiences of secondary infertility, sub-fertility, and contemporary anxiety about reproduction which have previously been overlooked because many of them had children. Drawing on English and Scottish examples, it explores the pressure to reproduce that royal couples experienced, and how they responded to this with medical and spiritual therapies.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
York
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white
File size
1,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-80270-430-3 (9781802704303)
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12/2025
Arc Humanities Press
€199.07
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Contributor: Emma Trivett Emma Trivett completed her PhD in medieval history at the University of Edinburgh in 2022. She continues to research and publish on royal fertility in medieval England and Scotland.
