Abortion in the early middle ages, c. 500-900 / Zubin Mistry.

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : York Medieval Press, 2015.

xiii, 342 pages ; 25 cm

"A York Medieval Press publication in association with The Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ... and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. ... Rochester, NY ... and with the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York"--Title-page verso.

Title page vignette.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-333) and index.

Introduction: thinking about abortion in the early Middle Ages -- From hope of children to object of God's care: abortion in classical and late antique society -- The word of God: abortion and Christian communities in sixth-century Gaul -- Church and state: politicizing abortion in Visigothic Spain -- Medicine for sin: reading abortion in early medieval penitentials -- Tradition in practice: abortion under the Carolingians -- Legislative energies: disputing abortion in law-codes -- Interior wound: the rumour of abortion in the divorce of Lothar II and Theutberga -- Unnatural symbol: imagining Abortivi in the early Middle Ages.