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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.

History of civilization --- Thematology --- Nutritionary hygiene. Diet --- Iconography --- Mother and child in literature --- Breastfeeding in literature --- Breastfeeding in art --- Women and religion --- Wet nurses in literature --- Breastfeeding --- History --- Mother and child in literature. --- Breastfeeding in literature. --- Breastfeeding in art. --- Wet nurses in literature. --- History. --- Mother and child in literature - History --- Breastfeeding in literature - History --- Breastfeeding in art - History --- Women and religion - History --- Wet nurses in literature - History --- Breastfeeding - History --- Lactation in art --- Lactation in literature --- Arts, Medieval --- Literature, Medieval --- Arts, Renaissance --- European literature --- Renaissance arts --- Breast feeding in literature --- Breast feeding in art --- History and criticism

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»Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the concept of Catholic »charity«, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It analyses why early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene »good to think with« and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality. Jutta Gisela Sperling discusses the different visual contexts in which »Roman Charity« flourished and reconstructs contemporary horizons of expectation by reference to literary sources, medical practice, and legal culture. »Sperling's book is a useful addition to scholarly conversations in several fields and disciplines - art history and early modern gender studies in particular. Though not a text for an introductory course, it provides more advanced students and researchers with thoughtful and creative tools for analyzing the transmission of images through time as well as about the ways in which we engage the meaning and reception of those images.« Peter Carlson, Comitatus, 48 (2017)

Sex --- Sex (Psychology) --- Social aspects. --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Psychological aspects --- early modern history --- patriarchy --- visual culture --- fine arts --- cultural history --- queer studies --- queer theory --- visual studies --- gender --- art --- art history --- image --- Caravaggio --- Cimon --- Roman Charity

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Examining women's property rights in different societies across the entire medieval and early modern Mediterranean, this volume introduces a unique comparative perspective to the complexities of gender relations in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. Through individual case studies based on urban and rural, elite and non-elite, religious and secular communities, Across the Religious Divide presents the only nuanced history of the region that incorporates peripheral areas such as Portugal, the Aegean Islands, Dalmatia, and Albania into the central narrative. By bridgin

Women --- Women and religion --- Femmes --- Femmes et religion --- History --- Social conditions --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of law --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- South Europe