Current research project, funded by the FWF Austrian Science Fund:
The Interpretation of Childbirth in Early Modern Spain
Pregnancy, childbirth, the grim and wonderful business of procreation: these topics are related to all other fields of society. In 17th century Spain childbirth was accompanied and guided by symbols, rituals, images and stories. It is this cultural side of obstetrics we propose to explore assuming that the body cannot be explained without the mind.
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Chief editors
Wolfram Aichinger, Sabrina Grohsebner, Fernando Sanz-Lázaro
Editorial Staff
Tamara Hanus, Hannah Fischer
Collaborators
Clara Bonet Ponce, Karolina Kaniewska, Walburga Plunger, Varvara Rytsk, Jesús M. Usunáriz, Carlos Varea, Sophie Winklehner
Associated Investigators
Wiki Anwari, Giuseppe Pio Cascavilla, Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha, José Antonio Fernández Fernández, Hannah Fischer, Karin Fuchs, Francisco José García Pérez, Lisa Heilig, Valentna Hillbrandt, Nere Jone Intxaustegi, Sabine K., Nina Kremmel, Kurt Kriz, Christopher Laferl, Rocío Martínez López, Marie-France Morel, Luis A. Moreno Príncipe, Hannah Mühlparzer, María Ortega Máñez, Dorina Nemeth, Pilar Panero García, Gerhard Poppenberg, Alvaro Ramirez, Fernando Rodríguez-Gallego, Antonio Sánchez Jiménez, Freya Schuen, Christian Standhartinger, Marie Stockinger, María Cristina Tabernero Sala, Beatriz Villegas, Katharina Webinger, Alexandra Wögrath
Recent publications
¿Lo que más temían las mujeres? Partos mortales y embarazos de riesgo en palacio y en casas de pobres (Siglo de Oro con incursiones contemporáneas), Aichinger, W., 13 February 2024, In: Avisos de Viena. Viennese Cultural Studies. 6, p. 53-66. PDF
Matronas hacen linajes. La comadre Inés de Ayala (1590-1663) y su nieta Inés María de Sada. In: ‚El hacedor de las musas’. Homenaje al profesor Francisco Domínguez Matito, edited by Juan Manuel Escudero Baztán y Rebeca Lázaro Niso, 5-22. San Millán de la Cogolla: Cilengua, 2023: 5-22.
Wolfram Aichinger, Alice Dulmovits: Obstetrics Shaped by Ritual. Water and Emergency Baptism in Spanish Birthing Scenarios (1500-1800). In: Costanza Gislon Dopfel (Ed.): Maternal Materials. Object, rituals and material evidence of medieval and early modern childbirth. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.
Hora del parto en Daimiel (Ciudad Real) en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, Carlos Varea, Lara Carasa, Pere Planesas, Wolfram Aichinger, 01 Aug 2023, In: Avisos de Viena. Viennese Cultural Studies. 5, p. 73-82. PDF
Los bautizados de socorro de Pedro Bernardo (Ávila). Un momento de transición en el registro de la muerte neonatal, Aichinger, W., 3 May 2023, In: Memoria y Civilización. 26, 1, p. 231-253. PDF
Virtual Exhibition
Culturas del parto en España y Europa (siglos XV a XVIII): Una historia cultural del parto, Aichinger, W., Varea, C. (ed.), Bonet, C., Fernández Fernández, J. A., Fischer-Monzón, H. M. A., Foscati, A., Fuchs, K., Grohsebner, S., Hanus, T., Heilig, L., inxaustegi, J. N., Kremmel, N., Kriz, K., Martínez, R., Mühlparzer, H., Panero García, P., Sanz-Lázaro, F., Standhartinger, C., Standhartinger, C. J., Stockinger, M., Usunáriz, J. M. & Alexander, S., In: Museo Virtual de Ecologia Humana, 1 Mar 2022. Virtual Exhibition english / spanish