IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1119: Breast Borders: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages, II - Motherhood, Breastfeeding, and Religion
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | University of Cyprus |
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| Organisers: | Stavroula Constantinou, Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia Aspasia Skouroumouni Stavrinou, Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies University of Cyprus Nicosia |
| Moderator/Chair: | Mati Meyer, Department of Literature, Language & Arts, Open University of Israel, Raanana |
| Paper 1119-a | Birth and Maternity in Byzantine Prayerbooks (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Lay Piety, Mentalities |
| Paper 1119-b | Motherhood and Breastfeeding in the Passion of Perpetua (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Greek |
| Paper 1119-c | Mothers in Pain: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Breastfeeding in Greek Martyrdom Accounts (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Greek |
| Abstract | Taking as its point of departure Susanne Dixon's dictum: 'the biology of infancy is universal, but the human perceptions of it and what it requires are socially conditioned and subject to historical change' (The Roman Mother 1988: 129), this series of sessions aims at contributing to the 'breastfeeding turn', by promoting the investigation of the various aspects of the strong affinities between woman-as mother and nurse-and her lactating breast, as well as the social, ideological, and medical meanings and uses of motherhood, childbirth, and breastfeeding, and their visual and literary representations in the Middle Ages. |