CeMAR is pleased to share the new publication co-authored by Stavroula Constantinou and Aspasia-Skouroumouni-Stavrinou. “The Other Mother: Ancient and Early Byzantine Approaches to Wet-Nursing and Mothering”, available in open access from the Journal of Hellenic Studies, published online by Cambridge University Press (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075426924000053), explores mothering practices from Late Antiquity to the Early Byzantine era. Focusing on the understudied figure of the wet-nurse, the study sheds light into the various discourses that defined, controlled and regulated the behaviour and work of wet-nurses in premodern societies.

The director of CeMAR will give a paper at the Byzantine Studies Colloquium at Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC) on the 15th of November 2025. Her paper has the title “Narrative Prosthesis: Disability in the Byzantine Greek Lives of Holy Fools”.