images, rhetorics, practices
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sperling, Jutta Gisela > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- Z EUR 34 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- borstvoeding, seksualiteit, riten, islam, rooms-katholicisme, bakers, vroegmoderne periode, middeleeuwen, renaissance, 14e eeuw, 15e eeuw, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- 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.