Baptism through incision

• Verfasst von: Few, Martha [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Tortorici, Zeb [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Warren, Adam [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Baptism through incision
• Titelzusatz: the postmortem cesarean operation in the Spanish Empire
• Mitwirkende: Arrese, Pedro José de
• Verf.angabe: Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren
• Verlagsort: University Park, Pennsylvania
• Verlag: The Pennsylvania State University Press
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: [2020]
• Umfang: XIV, 135 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Latin American originals ; 15
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08607-1
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1686500289

Abstract

Introduction : postmortem cesareans; Pedro José de Arrese's Guatemalan treatise in historical context -- Arrese's text : Physical, canonical, moral principles ... on the baptism of miscarried fetuses and the cesarean operation on women who die pregnant / translated by Nina M. Scott -- Additional translations from across the Spanish Empire / translated by Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren. Excerpt from Spain ; Excerpts from colonial Peru and Río de la Plata ; Excerpts from colonial Guatemala ; Excerpts from colonial New Spain.

Abstract

"Explores the history of the postmortem cesarean operation, which was performed in order to extract the fetus and save its soul through baptism. Examines accounts of the operation from across the Spanish empire in the eighteenth century"--