Tiffany D Vann Sprecher

Biographic Data

ID5988090
NAMETiffany D Vann Sprecher
GIVEN NAMESTiffany D Vann
FAMILY NAMESprecher
SIGNATURESPRECHER T D V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Minnesota
ORCID0000-0002-1677-2924
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX0

  • Community regulation and its effects

    Tiffany D Vann SprecherARTICLEJournal of Medieval History2016

    At the start of the sixteenth century, the archidiaconal court of Paris lacked centralised means of enforcement and relied heavily on parishioners to supervise one another and their priests. This article analyses cases from court registers dating from 1483 to 1505 that detail instances in which parishioners reacted aggressively to illicit contact between priests and women. It argues that the court appropriated parishioners' intimidating and somet…

  • The Marketplace of the Ministry

    Tiffany D Vann SprecherARTICLESpeculum2016References: 9

  • The Midwife and the Church

    Tiffany D Vann Sprecher, Ruth Mazo KarrasARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2011

    At the turn of the sixteenth century in Paris, midwifery was an emergent profession regulated by the church. This article analyzes fourteen entries in the Registre de causes from the archdeaconry of Brie, 1499-1504, within the context of midwives' relationship with the church. It suggests that midwives were important appendages of the ecclesiastical bureaucracy. Midwife regulation was one aspect of the French church's attempts to maintain its aut…