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Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death

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?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, a... Read more

Starring Helen Castor

Watch "Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death" on Amazon released in 2013. It's a documentary and history movie, and has a rating of 7.7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.

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