Jutta Gisela Sperling (Editor)
Ashgate Publishing
Physical Details: 450 pagea
Language: English
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 representations of the breast, the iconography of the Madonna Lactans, allegories of abundance, nature, and charity, women mystics' food-centered practices of devotion, the ubiquitous practice of wet-nursing, and medical theories of conception. It is informed by studies on queer kinship in early modern Europe, notions of sacred eroticism in pre-tridentine Catholicism, feminist investigations of breastfeeding as a sexual practice, and by anthropological and historical scholarship on milk exchange and ritual kinship in ancient Mediterranean and medieval Islamic societies.Proposing a variety of different methods and analytical frameworks within which to consider instances of lactation imagery, breastfeeding practices, and their textual references, this volume also offers tools to support further research on the topic. List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Jutta Gisela Sperling 1 “The Milk of the Male”: Kinship, Maternity and Breastfeeding in Medieval Islam Mohammed Hocine Benkheira 2 Why Could Early Modern Men Lactate? Gender Identity and Metabolic Narrations in Humoral Medicine Barbara Orland 3 The Mother and the Dida [Nanny]: Female Employers and Wet Nurses in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona Rebecca Lynn Winer 4 Peasants at the Palace: Wet Nurses and Aristocratic Mothers in Early Modern Rome Caroline Castiglione 5 “With My Daughter’s Milk”: Wet Nurses and the Rhetoric of Lactation in Valencian Court Records Debra Blumenthal 6 Popular Balladry and the Terrible Wet Nurse: “La nodriza del rey” Emilie L. Bergmann 7 Picturing Institutional Wet-Nursing in Medicean Siena Diana Bullen Presciutti 8 Mother London and the Madonna Lactans in England’s Plague Epic Rebecca Totaro 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 Alexandra Woolley 10 The Economics of Milk and Blood in Alberti’s Libri della famiglia: Maternal versus Wet-Nursing Julia L. Hairston 11 The Social and Religious Context of Iconographic Oddity: Breastfeeding in Ghirlandaio’s Birth of the Baptist Patricia Simons 12 Wet Nurses, Midwives, and the Virgin Mary in Tintoretto’s Birth of Saint John the Baptist (1563) Jutta Gisela Sperling 13 Full of Grace: Lactation, Expression and “Colorito” Painting in Some Early Works by Rubens J. Vanessa Lyon
...MoreReview Rebecca Zorach (2016) Review of "Medieval and Renaissance Lactations: Images, Rhetorics, Practices". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 326-329).
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