“The Other Mother: Ancient and Early Byzantine Approaches to Wet-Nursing and Mothering”

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.

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