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1.
Record Number:
44502
Author(s):
Asher ben Yehiel, Rabbi and Sarah Ifft Decker
Contributor(s):
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:
44809
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Women in the Economy [a. Domestic Service, b. Wage Labor of a Muslim Wife, e. Loan of a Jewish Widow, g. Wet Nurse]
Source:
Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650. Edited by Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos and Mark D. Meyerson . University of California Press, 2022. Pages 207 - 210.
Year of Publication:
2022.
3.
Record Number:
32310
Author(s):
Hairston, Julia L.
Contributor(s):
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,
Contributor(s):
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.
Contributor(s):
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:
3507
Author(s):
Parsons, John Carmi.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Que Nos in Infancia Lactauit: The Impact of Childhood Care-Givers on Plantagenet Family Relationships in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries [topics discussed include the concern of the royal parents, the efforts made to integrate children into their birth families, and the loyalty adult children felt for their caregivers and their families].
Source:
Women, Marriage, and Family in Medieval Christendom: Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan, C.S.B. Edited by Constance M. Rousseau and Joel T. Rosenthal . Western Michigan University, 1998. Pages 289 - 324.
Year of Publication:
1998.
7.
Record Number:
3669
Author(s):
Holmes, Megan.
Contributor(s):
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:
2136
Author(s):
Shatzmiller, Maya.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Women and Wage Labour in the Medieval Islamic West: Legal Issues in an Economic Context
Source:
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 40., 2 (May 1997): Pages 174 - 206.
Year of Publication:
1997.
9.
Record Number:
2992
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Infant Death in Late Medieval Florence: The Smothering Hypothesis Reconsidered [argues that some infant deaths ascribed to neglectful wet nurses may have been caused by sudden infant death syndrome; neglectful wet nurses did feed female infants less].
Source:
Medieval Family Roles: A Book of Essays. Edited by Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre . Garland Publishing, 1996. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 40., 2 (May 1997): Pages 137 - 153.
Year of Publication:
1996.
10.
Record Number:
28815
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Birth of St. John the Baptist
Source:
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 40., 2 (May 1997):
Year of Publication:
11.
Record Number:
34807
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Choosing a wet nurse
Source:
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 40., 2 (May 1997):
Year of Publication:
12.
Record Number:
37578
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Death and the wet nurse
Source:
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 40., 2 (May 1997):
Year of Publication: