Comments on: Of cats, rabbits and monstrous births http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn/index.php/archives/2005/02/of-cats-rabbits-and-monstrous-births/ news and views and even some research, from an early modern historian Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:51:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Sharon http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn/index.php/archives/2005/02/of-cats-rabbits-and-monstrous-births/#comment-1009 Sharon Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:06:46 +0000 http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn/index.php/archives/2005/02/of-cats-rabbits-and-monstrous-births/#comment-1009 It's an article I like very much (very much about understanding 'fear' and emotions in early modern people's own terms rather than projecting our own assumptions onto them). Can't wait to see the Malebranche take on the subject! :) Anybody else want to write something and create a sort of series out of this? There's lots just waiting to be written about early modern ideas about conception and pregnancy, rituals of childbirth, midwives, contraception and abortion knowledge (and much more)... and I don't have time right now. I really don't. It’s an article I like very much (very much about understanding ‘fear’ and emotions in early modern people’s own terms rather than projecting our own assumptions onto them). Can’t wait to see the Malebranche take on the subject! :)

Anybody else want to write something and create a sort of series out of this? There’s lots just waiting to be written about early modern ideas about conception and pregnancy, rituals of childbirth, midwives, contraception and abortion knowledge (and much more)… and I don’t have time right now. I really don’t.

]]> By: Brandon http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn/index.php/archives/2005/02/of-cats-rabbits-and-monstrous-births/#comment-1006 Brandon Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:18:57 +0000 http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn/index.php/archives/2005/02/of-cats-rabbits-and-monstrous-births/#comment-1006 Oooh, I'm going to have to write on this at some point this coming week. One of the philosophers I chiefly work with, Nicholas Malebranche, has long discussions of how the experiences of the mother affect the fetus. It plays an interesting role in his moral psychology. I'll have to read the Roodenburg article, too. Oooh, I’m going to have to write on this at some point this coming week. One of the philosophers I chiefly work with, Nicholas Malebranche, has long discussions of how the experiences of the mother affect the fetus. It plays an interesting role in his moral psychology.

I’ll have to read the Roodenburg article, too.

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