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This volume offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary, and intercultural examination of the lactating woman – biological mother and othermother – in antiquity and early Byzantium. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 List of Figures and Tables 10 Preface 12 Note to the Reader 14 Notes on Editors and Contributors 16 1 The Lactating Woman: Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium 18 Part I: Society and Ideology 82 2 Breast Rules: The Body of the Wet Nurse in Ancient and Early Byzantine Discourses 84 3 The Breast as Locus for Punishment 108 Part II: Medicine and Practice 120 4 Breastmilk as a Therapeutic Agent in Ancient and Early Byzantine Medical Literature 122 5 Weaning and Lactation Cessation in Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period: Medical Advice in Context 147 6 “Galaktology” and Genre: Simple Literary Forms on Milk and Breastfeeding in Ancient and Early Byzantine Medical Treatises 169 Part III: Art and Literature 198 7 Images of Breastfeeding in Early Byzantine Art: Form – Context – Function 200 8 Empowering Breasts: Women, Widows, and Prophetesses-with-Child at Dura-Europos 223 9 Roman Charity: N

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Author

Stavroula Constantinou (editor), Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou (editor)

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2023

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction