Daily Medieval

Although discussions of midwifery recently emphasized how they were considered lower in status than licensed medical professionals, they we...

As mentioned yesterday , midwifery was one of the few professions that was not considered worthy of a guild early on. That may be partially ...

As mentioned recently, since questions of health were managed almost entirely by men, questions about specific women's health issues wer...

Female doctors were not unknown in medieval Europe. I've written before of Trotula , for instance, and of course there were midwives . T...

When Guy de Chauliac mentioned midwives in his great work on surgery, it was only a mention: he declined to express details because the ...