The ritual of churching of women after childbirth in Denmark, 1500-1900
<p>This thesis traces the ritual of churching of women after childbirth in Lutheran Denmark which has hitherto been marginalised in scholarship. Rooted in Levitical childbirth impurity and closely linked to the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, churching was a troublesome legacy fo...
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2019
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