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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463799103321

Titolo

Medieval and Renaissance lactations : images, rhetorics, practices / / edited by Jutta Gisela Sperling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-09811-0

1-315-59474-9

1-317-09810-2

1-4094-4861-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

Women and gender in the early modern world

Altri autori (Persone)

SperlingJutta Gisela

Disciplina

809.933520431

Soggetti

Mother and child in literature

Breastfeeding in literature

Breastfeeding in art

Women and religion - History

Wet nurses in literature

Breastfeeding - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1 “The Milk of the Male�: Kinship, Maternity and Breastfeeding in Medieval Islam,""; ""2 Why Could Early Modern Men Lactate? Gender Identity and Metabolic Narrations in Humoral Medicine""; ""3 The Mother and the Dida [Nanny]: Female Employers and Wet Nurses in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona""; ""4 Peasants at the Palace: Wet Nurses and Aristocratic Mothers in Early Modern Rome""; ""5 “With My Daughter�s Milk�: Wet Nurses and the Rhetoric of Lactation in Valencian Court Records""

""6 Popular Balladry and the Terrible Wet Nurse: “La nodriza del rey�""""7 Picturing Institutional Wet-Nursing in Medicean Siena""; ""8 Mother London and the Madonna Lactans in England�s Plague Epic""; ""9 Nicolas Poussin�s Allegories of Charity in The Plague at Ashdod and The Gathering of the Manna and Their Influence on Late



Seventeenth-Century French Art""; ""10 The Economics of Milk and Blood in Alberti�s Libri della famiglia: Maternal versus Wet-Nursing""; ""11 The Social and Religious Context of Iconographic Oddity: Breastfeeding in Ghirlandaio�s Birth of the Baptist""

""12 Wet Nurses, Midwives, and the Virgin Mary in Tintoretto�s Birth of Saint John the Baptist (1563)""""13 Full of Grace: Lactation, Expression and “Colorito� Painting in Some Early Works by Rubens""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal historians, historians of science, and literary scholars explore some of the ambiguities and contradictions surrounding the issue, and point to the need for further study, in particular in the realm of lactation imagery in the visual arts.This volume builds on existing scholarship on representation