Wolfram Aichinger
Principal investigator
Romance Studies, University of Vienna
wolfram.aichinger@univie.ac.at
orcid.org/0000-0001-9313-6553

     › foundling homes
     › queens and midwives

Sabrina Grohsebner
Romance Studies, University of Vienna
sabrina.grohsebner@univie.ac.at
orcid.org/0000-0002-4648-0885

     › The midwife's hands

Tamara H.
Romance Studies, University of Vienna

     › babys born "en caul" and "with caul"

Varvara Rytsk
Romance Studies, University of Vienna
a12138996@unet.univie.ac.at

     › La Casa Cuna de Cádiz

Fernando Sanz-Lázaro
Romance Studies, University of Vienna
fernando.sanz-lazaro@univie.ac.at
orcid.org/0000-0002-8815-6741

     › birth scenarios in literature

Clara Bonet Ponce
Didáctica de la lengua y literatura, Universitat de València

     › life before birth

Hannah Fischer
orcid.org/0000-0001-6155-5032

     › birth and the moon

Nere Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi
Universidad de Deusto
nere.intxaustegi@deusto.es

Karolina Kaniewska
Romance Studies, University of Vienna

     › La Casa Cuna de Cádiz

Kurt Kriz
Romance Studies, University of Vienna
kurt.kriz@hotmail.com

     › las "Opiladas" and contraception

Rocío Martínez López
Early Modern History, Universidad Autonoma of Madrid
rocio.martinezl@uam.es
orcid.org/0000-0002-5366-5386

     › royal fertility and dynastic crisis

Hannah Mühlparzer
Romance Studies, University of Vienna
hannah.muehlparzer@univie.ac.at 

     › birth as death and death as birth

Pilar Panero García
Antropología, Universidad de Valladolid
mariapilar.panero@uva.es
orcid.org/0000-0001-7346-0778

     › the Virgin Mary as birth assistant

Giuseppe Pio Cascavilla
Independent Researcher
giuspicas@gmail.com

     › names and family ties

Walburga Plunger
Romance Studies, University of Vienna
walburga.plunger@univie.ac.at

     › grandmothers as birth assistants

Christian Standhartinger
Austrian State Archives, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Christian.Standhartinger@gmx.at

     › Perceptions of pregnancy, birth and childbed in aristocratic letters

Marie Stockinger
Romance Studies, University of Vienna
marie.stockinger@univie.ac.at 

     › children named after dead sisters and brothers

María Cristina Tabernero Sala
Philology, University of Navarra
orcid.org/0000-0002-0278-7818

     › a touchy subject: how to talk and write about birth

Jesús M. Usunáriz
Early Modern History, University of Navarra
GRISO, Grupo de Investigación del Siglo de Oro
jusunariz@unav.es
orcid.org/0000-0001-5274-2397

     › Saints in birthing chambers

Carlos Varea
Biology, Autonomous University of Madrid
Founder and president of La Asociación para el Estudio de la Ecología Humana (AEEH)
Co-director of the Museo Virtual de Ecología Humana
carlos.varea@uam.es
orcid.org/0000-0001-8915-0782

     › procreation in human life cycle