Breast feeding and sexual intercourse in medieval Norway

In: Annales de démographie historique: ADH, Band 1989, Heft 1, S. 245-265

Abstract

This paper comments on a paper by Solvi Sogner published in ADH, 1986, p. 353-359, where she maintains that a taboo on sexual intercourse during the period of lactation was practiced in medieval Norway after christianisation. It is shown that there exists no