Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium

by: Constantinou, S. Skouroumouni-Stavrinou, A.

Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium
Edited By Stavroula Constantinou, Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou

Description

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.

By developing the model of the lactating woman, the volume offers a new analytical framework for understanding a significant part of the still unwritten cultural history of the period. At the same time, the volume significantly contributes to the emerging fields of breast and motherhood studies. The new and significant knowledge generated in the fields of ancient and Byzantine studies may also prove useful for cultural historians in general and other disciplines, such as literary studies, art history, history of medicine, philosophy, theology, sociology, anthropology, and gender studies.

Table of Contents
Introduction

Chapter 1: The Lactating Woman: Breastfeeding and Motherhood in Antiquity and Early Byzantium - Stavroula Constantinou and Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou

Part I: Society and Ideology

Chapter 2: Breast Rules: The Body of the Wet Nurse in Ancient and Early Byzantine Discourses -Stavroula Constantinou and Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou

Chapter 3: The Breast as Locus for Punishment - Dionysios Stathakopoulos

Part II: Medicine and Practice

Chapter 4: Breastmilk as a Therapeutic Agent in Ancient and Early Byzantine Medical Literature - Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

Chapter 5: Weaning and Lactation Cessation in Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period: Medical Advice in Context - Laurence Totelin

Chapter 6: "Galaktology" and Genre: Simple Literary Forms on Milk and Breastfeeding in Ancient and Early Byzantine Medical Treatises - Stavroula Constantinou and Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou

Part III: Art and Literature

Chapter 7: Images of Breastfeeding in Early Byzantine Art: Form – Context – Function - Maria Parani

Chapter 8: Empowering Breasts: Women, Widows, and Prophetesses-with-Child at Dura-Europos - Barbara Crostini

Chapter 9: Roman Charity: Nonnos of Panopolis, Support for Parents, and Questions of Gender - Tim Parkin

Chapter 10: Children in Distress: Agonizing Mothers as Intercessors in Early Byzantine Miracle Collections - Andria Andreou

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• ISBN-03: 1032208767 / 1-03-220876-7
• Routledge, London, 2024

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