IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1308: Breast Rules: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages, IV - Breastfeeding in Art and Literature
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 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 1308-a | Breastfeeding in the Greek Anthology (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Greek |
Paper 1308-b | Breastfeeding in Byzantine Art: Aspects of Materiality and Realia (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Gender Studies |
Paper 1308-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. |