This volume offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary, and intercultural examination of the lactating woman – biological mother and othermother – in antiquity and early Byzantium. Adopting methodologies and knowledge deriving from a variety of disciplines, the volume’s contributors investigate the close interrelationship between a woman and her lactating breasts, as well as the social, ideological, theological, and medical meanings and uses of motherhood, childbirth, and breastfeeding, along with their visual and literary representations.
Breastfeeding and the work of mothering are explored through the study of a great variety of sources, mainly works of Greek-speaking cultures, written and visual, anonymous and eponymous, which were mostly produced between the first and the seventh century AD. Due to their multiple interdisciplinary dimensions, ancient and early Byzantine lactating women are approached through three interconnected thematic strands having a twofold focus: society and ideology, medicine and practice, and art and literature.
Edition 1st EditionFirst Published 2023eBook Published 28 September 2023Pub. Location LondonImprint RoutledgePages 288eBook ISBN 9781003265658
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|64 pages
The Lactating Woman
Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium *Size: 0.77 MBpart I|38 pages
Society and Ideology
chapter 2|24 pages
Breast Rules
The Body of the Wet Nurse in Ancient and Early Byzantine Discourses *Size: 0.46 MBchapter 3|12 pages
The Breast as Locus for Punishment
Size: 0.72 MBpart II|78 pages
Medicine and Practice
Size: 0.42 MBchapter 5|22 pages
Weaning and Lactation Cessation in Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period
Medical Advice in ContextSize: 0.42 MBchapter 6|29 pages
“Galaktology” and Genre
Simple Literary Forms on Milk and Breastfeeding in Ancient and Early Byzantine Medical Treatises *Size: 0.46 MBpart III|82 pages
Art and Literature
Size: 5.15 MBSize: 0.92 MBSize: 0.34 MBchapter 10|19 pages
Children in Distress
Agonizing Mothers as Intercessors in Early Byzantine Miracle Collections *Size: 0.36 MB
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