Robin Hood, Part II

<p>It's the second half of our Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves episode! Join us for a discussion of medieval childbirth, sheriffs, and our grades for the history and the movie!</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Medieval Obstetrics:</p> <p>Jeffrey Boss, "The Antiquity of Caesarean Section with Maternal Survival: The Jewish Tradition."</p> <p>Hossam E. Fadel, "Obstetrics in Islamic Medicine: An Historical Perspective." JIMA 28 (1996)</p> <p>Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. Cornell University Press, 1990.</p> <p>Monica Green, "Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe," Signs 14, 2 (Winter 1989)</p> <p>Sara Verskin, "Gender Segregation and the Possibility of Arabo-Galenic Gynecological Practice in the Medieval Islamic World," in Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550, ed. Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia. Amsterdam University Press, 2020.</p> <p>Sheriffs:</p> <p>Veach, Colin. "Sheriff of Herefordshire: 1216–22." In Lordship in Four Realms: The Lacy Family, 1166–1241, 167-90. Manchester University Press, 2014. Accessed July 20, 2020. <a href= "http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18mbfk9.13.">www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18mbfk9.13.</a></p> <p>PALMER, ROBERT C. "The Sheriff and His Staff." In The County Courts of Medieval England, 1150-1350, 28-55. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982. Accessed July 20, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvckq7zt.7. Jenkinson, C. Hilary, and Mabel H. Mills. "Rolls from a Sheriff's Office of the Fourteenth Century." The English Historical Review 43, no. 169 (1928): 21-32. Accessed July 21, 2020. <a href= "http://www.jstor.org/stable/551764.">www.jstor.org/stable/551764.</a></p> <p>Wilkinson, Louise J. Women in thirteenth-century Lincolnshire. Vol. 54. Boydell & Brewer, 2007. Wilkinson, Louise J. "Women in English Local Government: Sheriffs, Castellans and Foresters." In The Growth of Royal Government under Henry III, edited by Wilkinson Louise J. and Crook David, 212-26. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK;