Introduction: thinking about abortion in the early Middle Ages ; From hope of children to object of God's care: abortion in classical and late antique society ; The word of God: abortion and Christian communities in sixth-century Gaul ; Church and state: politicizing abortion in Visigothic Spain ; Medicine for sin: reading abortion in early medieval penitentials ; Tradition in practice: abortion under the Carolingians ; Legislative energies: disputing abortion in law-codes ; Interior wound: the rumour of abortion in the divorce of Lothar II and Theutberga ; Unnatural symbol: imagining Abortivi in the early Middle Ages.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-333) and index