Broschiertes Buch

Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium

Beschreibung

This volume offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary, and intercultural examination of the lactating woman - biological mother and othermother - in antiquity and early Byzantium.

Autor

Stavroula Constantinou is the founder and director of the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals at the University of Cyprus (UCY). She is also the initiator and editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed and diamond open access journal Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts and Rituals (first issue in November 2023). Currently, she coordinates the major EU-Horizon 2020 project Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals (grant agreement nr 951875) and a couple of other projects on mothering and storytelling. Her research focuses on Byzantine narratives, gender, ritual, performance, emotions, and the body. She is the author of the forthcoming book Interactive Embodiment: Approaching Byzantine Bodies (2024). Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals at UCY. Her research focuses on ancient Greek drama (with an emphasis on performance, space, gender, and reception), ancient Greek religion, ancient and early Byzantine motherhood, and family culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781032208763
• ISBN-10: 1032208767
• Artikelnr.: 74062983