In Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death, historian and author Dr. Helen Castor (She-Wolves: England's Early Queens) examines how the people of the Middle Ages handled three of life's great rites of passage birth, marriage, and death. Why were physicians of no help to women enduring the pains of labor and the dangers of childbirth? Why were newly married couples "put to bed" by the priest on their wedding night? What did it mean to "die well" and why was death such a communal affair, both before and after it happened?
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Helen Castor
Self - Presenter
Carol Rawcliffe
Self - University of East Anglia
Roberta Gilchrist
Self - University of Reading
Colin Simpson
Self - Diocese of Peterborough
Janette Allotey
Self - University of Manchester
Carl Watkins
Self - University of Cambridge
Judith Bennett
Self - University of Southern California
John Harper
Self - Bangor University
David D'Avray
Self - University College London
Lucyann Ashdown
Self - Irfon Valley and Blaenau Irfon Parishes
Bronach Kane
Self - Cardiff University
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