IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1319: Breast Borders: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages, IV - Breastfeeding in Art and Literature
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Stavroula Constantinou, Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia |
| Paper 1319-a | Breastfeeding in the Greek Anthology (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Greek |
| Paper 1319-b | Nourishing and Mothering: Aspects of Realia and Materiality in Byzantine Breastfeeding Imagery (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Gender Studies |
| Paper 1319-c | St Nicholas Refuses His Mother's Breast: Some Reflections on Iconography between Byzantium and the West (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Hagiography, Lay Piety |
| 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. |