18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 37

[cahn]

More diaries of our favorite 18th-century Prussian diary-keeper have been unearthed and have been synopsized!

January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!

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Re: Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe by John A. Lynn (2008)

[cahn]

Oh, interesting, thanks! I'd heard vaguely before about the connection between quickening and ensoulment, but not very much.

(And I suppose medically speaking, the word abortion just means that the pregnancy stops -- a miscarriage is medically called a spontaneous abortion.)