IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1208: Breast Rules: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages, III - Milk and Blood
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | Christodoulos Papavarnavas, Abteilung Byzanzforschung Institut für Mittelalterforschung Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien |
| Paper 1208-a | The Use and Symbolism of a 'Masculine' Milk from the Egyptian Period of the Pyramids to the Medieval Period (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Medicine, Pagan Religions |
| Paper 1208-b | Milk in Ancient and Byzantine Medical Treatises (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Medicine |
| 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. |