{"id":617,"date":"2017-08-08T03:07:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T03:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2017\/08\/08\/as-century-or-100-days-of-as-day-1\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:25:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:25:56","slug":"as-century-or-100-days-of-as-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2017\/08\/08\/as-century-or-100-days-of-as-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A&S Century, or 100 Days of A&S – Day 1!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A few weeks ago, I decided to undertake the A&S Century, or 100 Days of A&S, that has been sweeping through the SCA as of late. The challenge was first proposed by Baroness Ameline of Rowany<\/a>, and is similar to the armored combatant century drill (100 days, 100 blows). Except instead of hitting people\/getting hit, you spend at least 10 minutes a day working on an A&S project.<\/p>\n

Inspired by Wu daren at the Royal University of Meridies this summer, and prompted by Mistress Catelin\u2019s challenge to research period maternity clothing, I decided to embark on a research focused A&S Century. My topic? Pregnancy and obstetrics in Early-Middle Imperial China (221 BCE \u2013 1234 CE). This covers the Qin through the Song Dynasties, but I will likely focus more on Middle than Early Imperial China, due to available sources.<\/p>\n

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This is technically a restart, since my start a few weeks ago had gaps between research periods, and the idea of the challenge is to do it every day. So for the reboot, I moved to the interlibrary loan title that I had to give back the soonest \u2013 Medieval Chinese medicine: The Dunhuang medical manuscripts<\/em>, edited by Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen, published by Routledge (Taylor and Francis), in 2005.<\/p>\n

This book has 16 essays on a variety of topics pertaining to the medical manuscripts found in the Dunhuang caves. My initial plan of attack for this title was to look up \u201cpregnancy\u201d in the index and go to all the listed pages and see what was mentioned. Three of those four essays (at least in part) are the subject of this post. Other essays of note, which I\u2019ll have to look at before I turn this book in, include:<\/p>\n