Participation of the MotherBreast Project in the series of lectures of the Zinonio Free University of Larnaca.
February 15, 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS: Breast Borders: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages
June 1, 2020
THE HELLENIC CENTRE OF LONDON: CULTURAL EVENTS
Participation of the MotherBreast Project in the Series of "Cultural Events" of the Hellenic Centre of London.
Details:
Presentation:
Title:
"Breast Rules: Towards a Sociology of the Nursing Woman in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium".
Content:
This lecture presentation concerns an early chapter of the fascinating social history of breastfeeding. It examines the social realities and ideologies surrounding the nursing woman (mother and wet nurse) from the first centuries of our common era until seventh-century Byzantium. Ancient sources and earlier research are revisited in an attempt to unravel the economic, social, political, cultural, moral and emotional implications that determined the ways in which nursing mothers and wet nurses were perceived and treated in the examined period.
Title:
"Breast Rules: Towards a Sociology of the Nursing Woman in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium".
Content:
This lecture presentation concerns an early chapter of the fascinating social history of breastfeeding. It examines the social realities and ideologies surrounding the nursing woman (mother and wet nurse) from the first centuries of our common era until seventh-century Byzantium. Ancient sources and earlier research are revisited in an attempt to unravel the economic, social, political, cultural, moral and emotional implications that determined the ways in which nursing mothers and wet nurses were perceived and treated in the examined period.
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