medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> I am not happy with the idea that dying-in-childbirth tidied up the
> ratios.
> The documents I have worked with -- generally Venice 1300-1550, including
> a
> necrology for the Greek community for 250 years, suggest that this is much
> lower in the list of causes of female mortality than dysenteries,
> pneumonia
> & "fever" (probably often malaria). I'd like to know about studies on
> this
> topic.
I agree. necrology lists for the colonial period also shows that less than
5% of deaths of women could be considered possibly from childbirth. If I
recall, this was a correlation of deaths of the mother within a year of a
child's birth, so even that number could easily be considered high. If I can
recall the name of the study, I'll list it.
Nancy
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