Tag: marriage

• Arnolfini Double Portrait & Maternal Mortality

  

  This amazing painting by Jan van Eyck (1390-1441) features Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini (c1400 – after 1452) (possibly a cousin of Jan van Eyck) and his wife Costanza Trenta Arnolfini (c1413-c1432-3). They were both from Lucca (to the northwest of Florence in Italy). He was a prominent Italian merchant. Her aunt was married to Lorenzo…

  Aradia Wyndham

  June 19, 2024

  Pregnancy, Video

  15thcentury, art history, Bruge, Bruges, history, marriage, maternal mortality, Pregnancy, renaissance

• Humoral Medicine | Pregnancy, Birth, and Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages

  

  Learn about the humoral theory and it’s ideas about pregnancy, birth, and infant care including breastfeeding.

  Aradia Wyndham

  December 21, 2019

  Babies, Birth, Pregnancy, Video

  ancient history, ancient rome, balance, Birth, bloodletting, breastfeeding, Breastmilk, cold, diet, disease, fetus, Galen, gestation, Hippocrates, humoral, humoral medicine, humoral theory, humoural, inducing labor, infertility, lifestyle, marriage, massage, medical myth, medieval, Mediterranean, menstruation, middle ages, midwifery, miscarriage, orgasm, period, physician, post term, Pregnancy, premature infant, purging, quickening, sex, surgeon, swaddling, The Boke of Chyldren, trotula, wetnurse