Medieval and Renaissance Lactations

Jutta Sperling is Associate Professor of History at Hampshire College, USA.

Introduction, Jutta Gisela Sperling; Chapter 1 “The Milk of the Male”: Kinship, Maternity and Breastfeeding in Medieval Islam,, Mohammed Hocine Benkheira; Chapter 2 Why Could Early Modern Men Lactate? Gender Identity and Metabolic Narrations in Humoral Medicine, Barbara Orland; Chapter 3 The Mother and the Dida, Nanny: Female Employers and Wet Nurses in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona, Rebecca Lynn Winer; Chapter 4 Peasants at the Palace: Wet Nurses and Aristocratic Mothers in Early Modern Rome, Caroline Castiglione; Chapter 5 “With My Daughter’s Milk”: Wet Nurses and the Rhetoric of Lactation in Valencian Court Records, Debra Blumenthal; Chapter 6 Popular Balladry and the Terrible Wet Nurse: “La nodriza del rey”, Emilie L. Bergmann; Chapter 7 Picturing Institutional Wet-Nursing in Medicean Siena, Diana Bullen Presciutti; Chapter 8 Mother London and the Madonna Lactans in England’s Plague Epic, Rebecca Totaro; Chapter 9 Nicolas Poussin’s Allegories of Charity in The Plague at Ashdod and The Gathering of the Manna and Their Influence on Late Seventeenth-Century French Art, Alexandra Woolley; Chapter 10 The Economics of Milk and Blood in Alberti’s Libri della famiglia: Maternal versus Wet-Nursing, Julia L. Hairston; Chapter 11 The Social and Religious Context of Iconographic Oddity: Breastfeeding in Ghirlandaio’s Birth of the Baptist, Patricia Simons; Chapter 12 Wet Nurses, Midwives, and the Virgin Mary in Tintoretto’s Birth of Saint John the Baptist (1563), Jutta Gisela Sperling; Chapter 13 Full of Grace: Lactation, Expression and “Colorito” Painting in Some Early Works by Rubens, J. Vanessa Lyon;