Medieval and Renaissance Lactations: Images, Rhetorics, Practices

By Jutta Gisela Sperling

Book Overview

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 s

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032242965
• ISBN13: 9781032242965
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"