Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 44502
Author(s): Asher ben Yehiel, Rabbi and Sarah Ifft Decker
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Title : Rabbi Asher ben Yehiel, Shut haRosh, 17.7: Obligations of Mothers and Wetnurses

Source: Jewish Women in the Medieval World: 500-1500 CE. Sarah Ifft Decker. Edited by Sarah Ifft Decker, translator of Document 16 . Routledge, 2022. Pages 133 - 133.
Year of Publication: 2022.

2. Record Number: 32309
Author(s): Simons, Patricia
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Title : The Social and Religious Context of Iconographic Oddity: Breastfeeding in Ghirlandaio's Birth of the Baptist

Source: Medieval and Renaissance Lactations: Images, Rhetorics, Practices. Edited by Jutta Gisela Sperling . Ashgate, 2013. Pages 213 - 233.
Year of Publication: 2013.

3. Record Number: 32310
Author(s): Hairston, Julia L.
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Title : The Economics of Milk and Blood in Alberti's Libri della famiglia: Maternal versus Wet-Nursing

Source: Medieval and Renaissance Lactations: Images, Rhetorics, Practices. Edited by Jutta Gisela Sperling . Ashgate, 2013. Pages 187 - 212.
Year of Publication: 2013.

4. Record Number: 32311
Author(s): Presciutti, Diana Bullen,
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Title : Picturing Institutional Wet-Nursing in Medicean Siena

Source: Medieval and Renaissance Lactations: Images, Rhetorics, Practices. Edited by Jutta Gisela Sperling . Ashgate, 2013. Pages 129 - 146.
Year of Publication: 2013.

5. Record Number: 3398
Author(s): Giladi, Avner.
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Title : Breast-Feeding in Medieval Islamic Thought: a Preliminary Study of Legal and Medical Writings

Source: Journal of Family History , 23., 2 (April 1998): Pages 107 - 123.
Year of Publication: 1998.

6. Record Number: 4352
Author(s): Williamson, Beth.
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Title : The Virgin "Lactans" as Second Eve: Image of the "Salvatrix" [the author analyzes the iconography of a painting by Carlo da Camerino, depicting the Virgin nursing the infant Christ with Eve reclining below; Margaret Miles had argued that the painting juxtaposes Mary's goodness with Eve's sinful body (and the bodies of the female viewers); the author argues that the panel creates a "complex allegory not only of the Virgin's centrality to human redemption but also of Eve's crucial role in this process"].

Source: Studies in Iconography , 19., ( 1998): Pages 105 - 138.
Year of Publication: 1998.

7. Record Number: 3669
Author(s): Holmes, Megan.
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Title : Disrobing the Virgin: The "Madonna Lactans" in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Art [the author argues that the popularity of the "Madonna lactans" waned from the 1440s through the 1470s because increased naturialism made the bare breast problematic; when the motif reappeared in the late fifteenth century , it was modified by making the Virgin less immediate and less accessible].

Source: Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. Edited by Geraldine A. Johnson and Sara F. Mathews Grieco . Cambridge University Press, 1997. Journal of Family History , 23., 2 (April 1998): Pages 167 - 195.
Year of Publication: 1997.

8. Record Number: 3578
Author(s): MacLehose, William F.
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Title : Nurturing Danger: High Medieval Medicine and the Problem(s) of the Child

Source: Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1996. Journal of Family History , 23., 2 (April 1998): Pages 3 - 24.
Year of Publication: 1996.

9. Record Number: 9068
Author(s): Dickson, Gary.
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Title : Clare's Dream [The author examines the canonization documents of Saint Clare of Assisi. The records depict her as a strong and determined woman who forsook her rich family and embraced a spiritual life, following the example set by Francis of Assisi. They also indicate that after Francis' death, Clare had a dream in which she sucked milk from his breast. After describing various scholars' interpretations of the dream, the author suggests that the dream demonstrates Clare's intimacy with and dependency upon Francis. It presents a more human side to the heroic woman described in later hagiographical texts. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mediaevistik , 5., ( 1992): Pages 39 - 55.
Year of Publication: 1992.

10. Record Number: 8704
Author(s): Benedictow, Ole Jørgen.
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Title : On the Origin and Spread of the Notion that Breast-feeding Women Should Abstain from Sexual Intercourse [The author argues that the idea that sexual relations and a new pregnancy were injurious to a mother’s milk came from such ancient medical authorities as Galen and Soranus. Clerics like Ivo of Chartres picked up the idea and advised caution. However, it never had the status of a taboo. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Scandinavian Journal of History , 17., 1 ( 1992): Pages 65 - 76.
Year of Publication: 1992.

11. Record Number: 11819
Author(s): Cestaro, Gary P.
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Title : ...quanquam Sarnum biberimus ante dentes...: The Primal Scene of Suckling in Dante's De vulgari eloquentia [In his treatise on language, Dante foregrounds suckling imagery and the importance of the maternal body. This maternal imagery stems from a long tradition of representing the allegorical figure of Grammatica (grammar) as a nurse. According to psychoanalytic theory, the assumed natural primacy of the vernacular as a mother tongue (a native language acquired before Latin) evokes a primal scene of union with the mother (a state that precedes linguistic communication in human development). Nonetheless, the rationalistic male grammarian perpetually struggles to obscure the feminine origins of speech in order to maintain strict gender boundaries. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Dante Studies , 109., ( 1991): Pages 119 - 147.
Year of Publication: 1991.

12. Record Number: 28843
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Title : Scenes from Old and New Testaments