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Dr Róisín Donohoe examines the place of the birth scroll, in protecting women in childbirth from death, loss and damnation.

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Dr Kierri Price gives an online tour of a medieval birth girdle - a long roll of parchment covered in texts and images that was used as a protective amulet during childbirth.

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Medievalist Kierri Price is confronted by the dilemma of discovering the past while preserving it for the future in their very personal encounter with a 500 year-old manuscript.

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