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DESCRIPTION: In premodernity\, a time when human milk was the only secure m
 eans for infant nutrition\, and in societies\, such as antiquity and early 
 Byzantium\, where breastfeeding was considered a servile work\, wet nursing
  was both a necessary and widespread occupation. Despite the social demand 
 for the profession\, public discourses around wet nurses were mostly unfavo
 urable\, while their work was treated with both admiration and scorn. In an
  attempt to understand ancient and early Byzantine approaches to the wet nu
 rse\, this paper takes a matricentric perspective. It investigates various 
 discourses (rhetorical\, moralist\, philosophical\, theological\, hagiograp
 hical\, medical\, and contractual) which establish the wet nurse as an esse
 ntial part of the institution of motherhood\, as a social and moral categor
 y whose work\, way of life\, and behaviour are constantly defined\, control
 led\, and regulated. These discourses\, nevertheless\, tell us much more ab
 out the anxieties and preoccupations of the societies that produced them an
 d much less about actual contemporary wet nurses. The choice for an investi
 gation encompassing antiquity up to early Byzantium\, an uncommon extension
  in the chronological range of existing studies\, further enlightens the me
 chanics and dynamics of the ideologies around the wet nurse\, as these are 
 preserved or evolve in time.     
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LOCATION:Freie Universität Berlin\, Habelschwerdter Allee 45 (Rost- und Sil
 berlaube)\, 14195 Berlin\, Raum JK 31/122 (Geschäftszimmer)\n 
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SUMMARY:Gastvortrag von Prof. Dr. Stavroula Constantinou (University of Cyp
 rus): Of Woman Nursed.  Wet Nursing as Mothering in Ancient and Early Byzan
 tine Cultures
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URL:https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we04/aedls/termine/S_Con
 stantinou.html
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