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Medieval and Renaissance Lactations - Images, Rhetorics, Practices (Hardcover, New Ed) Loot Price: R4,749
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Medieval and Renaissance Lactations - Images, Rhetorics, Practices (Hardcover, New Ed): Jutta Gisela Sperling

Medieval and Renaissance Lactations - Images, Rhetorics, Practices (Hardcover, New Ed)

Jutta Gisela Sperling

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The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal historians, historians of science, and literary scholars explore some of the ambiguities and contradictions surrounding the issue, and point to the need for further study, in particular in the realm of lactation imagery in the visual arts. This volume builds on existing scholarship on representations of the breast, the iconography of the Madonna Lactans, allegories of abundance, nature, and charity, women mystics' food-centered practices of devotion, the ubiquitous practice of wet-nursing, and medical theories of conception. It is informed by studies on queer kinship in early modern Europe, notions of sacred eroticism in pre-tridentine Catholicism, feminist investigations of breastfeeding as a sexual practice, and by anthropological and historical scholarship on milk exchange and ritual kinship in ancient Mediterranean and medieval Islamic societies. Proposing a variety of different methods and analytical frameworks within which to consider instances of lactation imagery, breastfeeding practices, and their textual references, this volume also offers tools to support further research on the topic.

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Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2013
First published: 2013
Editors: Jutta Gisela Sperling
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-1-4094-4860-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Renaissance art > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Human figures depicted in art > General
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LSN: 1-4094-4860-6
Barcode: 9781409448600

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