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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 563–588.
Published: 01 September 2019
... or a wet nurse. While the church sanctioned maternal breastfeeding as a moral norm, recourse to wet nurses was the norm for elites, and the custom spread in the later Middle Ages to the middling segments of society. Medieval physicians formulated their advice according to their understanding of the moral...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 285–319.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Jutta Sperling This essay investigates Benedetto Caliari's Nativity of the Virgin (1576) with its provocative and unorthodox depiction of a bare-breasted wet-nurse in the context of both Protestant and Catholic criticism of “indecent” religious imagery. Reformers on both sides drew a connection...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 467–491.
Published: 01 September 2008
... about their illnesses
themselves, while of the eight women who expressed themselves through a
mediator, three of them relied on their husbands to mediate, one of them
on her father, one on her employer (this particular woman was a wet nurse),
and the remaining three on an assortment of servants...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., aristocratic women were likely to use wet nurses, while the majority did not. This, in turn, contributed to the higher birth rate of the elite; Clinton herself, for example, had eighteen children. Only with the Industrial Revolution did the pattern change, as married women employed outside the home could...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 January 2004
... with them at night, and if so, until what age? Al-Shifa9
is a welcome exception to the textual silence, because she is identified as a
wet nurse, the adoptive mother of Buhair’s son, as well as the birth mother
of a son (al-Mutarrif ) with 1Abd al-Rahman II. Although a single example
does not make a rule...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 413–442.
Published: 01 September 2008
... or imbalance of blood and
phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. We have seen the diagrams showing each
humor as a blend of heat or cold, wetness or dryness. We have learned the
etymologies of words like sanguine and choleric, phlegmatic and melancholic,
and been taught how laziness, and anger, and other...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 601–630.
Published: 01 September 2000
...: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x, 204 pp.; 9 tables. $59.95.
Gerber, Haim. Islamic Law and Culture, 1600 –1840. Studies in Islamic
Law and Society, vol. 9. Leiden: Brill, 1999. 156 pp. $54.75.
Giladi, Avner. Infants, Parents, and Wet Nurses: Medieval Islamic Views...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 5–40.
Published: 01 January 2000
... (with a
reference to Aristotle’s Generation of Animals thrown in for good measure),
pregnancy, birth, care of the infant, and wet-nursing.68 The term secrets is
not used within the text except for the opening passage which indicates that
the first item for discussion is the internal...
