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Cordelia Beattie
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Professor of Women’s and Gender History, with particular focus on women in late medieval England. PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25.
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This is mentioned in three of her books but in most detail in Book 2: 'my gown skirt wrapped about my feet and so twisted that I could not loosen it... I fell upon my hands and knees...but the very weight of my body...did so shake me that the child was turned wrong in my womb'. 📚 📜

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14 Sept. 1657 #OTD Thornton, expecting her 5th child, 'got a great fall over the threshold in the hall at Hipswell... which cast me into an ill fit of a fever and the jaundice about three weeks...but it pleased God to restore me of Dr Wittie, who let me blood' (BkRem, 30). #EarlyModern 🗃️ #HistMed

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Professor of Women’s and Gender History, with particular focus on women in late medieval England. PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25.
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