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Blood, Birth, and the Crown: Royal Childbirth in the Middle Ages
In this episode, I’m joined by the wonderful Michèle Schindler to explore one of the most dangerous - and politically charged - experiences in medieval life: royal childbirth.
For queens and noblewomen, pregnancy was never just personal. It was dynastic. The survival of kingdoms rested on their bodies. We dive into what childbirth actually looked like inside medieval chambers - the rituals, the midwives, the prayers, the relics, and the intense female networks that surrounded labor.
What happened when things went wrong? How did repeated pregnancies shape a queen’s health - and her political…
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