Browsing Research publications by Author "Evans, Jennifer"
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Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England
Evans, Jennifer (Boydell & Brewer, 2014-10)It was common knowledge in early modern England that sexual desire was malleable, and could be increased or decreased by a range of foods - including artichokes, oysters and parsnips. This book argues that these aphrodisiacs ... -
“Before Midnight she had Miscarried” : Women, Men and Miscarriage in Early Modern England
Evans, Jennifer; Read, Sara (2015-01)Reproduction and Childbirth in the early modern era have sometimes been represented as a uniquely feminine experience. Similarly, studies of domestic medicine have in the past overlooked the role that men played in domestic ... -
'Bewitched in their privities' : Medical Responses to Infertility Witchcraft in Early Modern England
Evans, Jennifer (2012)For much of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries medical writers accepted that both infertility and sexual dysfunction, which were intimately connected disorders, in men and women could be caused by the devil and ... -
‘Blood made White’: the relationship between blood and breastmilk in Early Modern England
Evans, Jennifer; Read, Sara (Hektoen Institute of Medicine, 2019-11-05) -
Diversity and Collaboration? : Diversity Pathfinders Evaluation: Final Report
Woods, Philip; Levacic, Ros; Evans, Jennifer; Castle, Frances; Glatter, Ron; Cooper, Deborah (University of London, Inst of Education, 2006) -
Female Barrenness, Bodily Access and Aromatic Treatments in Seventeenth-Century England
Evans, Jennifer (2014-08)Scholars examining medical practice in early modern England have often remarked upon the complexities of the relationship between male physicians and female patients. It has been noted that ideas of female modesty and ... -
'Gentle Purges corrected with hot Spices, whether they work or not, do vehemently provoke Venery' : Menstrual Provocation and Procreation in Early Modern England
Evans, Jennifer (2012-02)Throughout the early modern period, medical writers described a plethora of remedies designed to provoke menstruation. This article will address the close relationship these substances had with provokers of lust. Historians ... -
‘it bringeth them into dangerous perill’: Management of and recovery from miscarriage in early modern England c. 1600-1750
Evans, Jennifer (2023-02-01)Early modern women frequently experienced miscarriages at different stages of their pregnancies. Scholarly investigation has revealed the emotional strain this placed on women and how women rationalized their experiences ... -
'It is caused of the womans part or of the mans part': the role of gender in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction in early modern England.
Evans, Jennifer (2011-07)Philip Barrough wrote in 1590 that barrenness ‘is caused of the womans part or of the mans part’. By the eighteenth century, however, barrenness was perceived as a female disorder distinguished from male impotence. Few ... -
Maladies and Medicines : Exploring Health and Healing 1540-1740
Evans, Jennifer; Read, Sara (Pen & Sword, 2017-07-09)Maladies and Medicine in Early Modernity, 1540-1740 offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background against which the body was understood, covering ... -
Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England
Evans, Jennifer (Amsterdam University Press, 2023-11-13)How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? This vivid and engaging history investigates how sexual, reproductive, and genitourinary conditions were understood between 1580 and 1740. Drawing on ... -
Patients, Practitioners and Lodgers: : Male Sexual Health Patients’ and Their Healers’ use of Location in Early Modern Medical Encounters
Evans, Jennifer (2018-10-18)Early modern medical literature is littered with complaints about the behaviour of male sexual health patients. Practitioners were particularly aggrieved that reckless consumption of food and alcohol and engaging in sexual ... -
Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to Twentieth Century
Evans, Jennifer; Meehan, Ciara; School of Humanities; History (Palgrave, 2017-01-10)This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pregnancy. It follows the process of reproduction from conception ... -
‘They are called Imperfect men’: Male infertility and sexual health in early modern England.
Evans, Jennifer (2016-05-01)Scholars of early modern gender and medicine have tended to focus on the female infertility. Discussions that have included male reproductive failure have considered sexual ability and impotence, rather than infertility. ... -
“A Toste wett in Muskadine”: Preventing Miscarriage in Early Modern English Recipe Books c.1600–1780
Evans, Jennifer (2022-11-29)Discussions about early modern miscarriage have considered in detail how women rationalised miscarriage framing the emotional burden of loss within the context of providence and sin. This valuable interpretation considers ... -
When Beans were the Food of Lust
Evans, Jennifer (2014-04)Throughout early modern medical treatises and botanical works writers detailed a range of foods that filled the body with wind and so provoked lust. Some rather surprising foods were thought of in this way including parsnips ...