Review of Infertility in Early Modern England, by Daphna Oren-Magidor (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
… convincingly establishes that there were different social meanings for infertility between men and women, I am not … fascinating. Oren-Magidor traces the changing cultural meanings in the use of baths to treat infertility in early … that in pre-Reformation England, the baths held religious meaning and those who ‘took the waters’ could pray for …