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Mothers and children : Jewish family life in medieval Europe / Elisheva Baumgarten.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Series: Publication details: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)2004.Description: 1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780691130293
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BM726 .M684 2004
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Birth -- Circumcision and baptism -- Additional birth rituals -- Maternal nursing and wet nurses : feeding and caring for infants -- Parents and children : competing values.
Review: "This book presents a synthetic history of the family - the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities - Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history."--Jacket.
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Revised edition of author's thesis (Ph. D.--ha-Universi£̀Ưah ha-Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim, 2000) originally titled: Imahot ì-yeladim ba-ı̀Æevrah ha-Yehudit bi-Yeme ha-Benayim.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Birth -- Circumcision and baptism -- Additional birth rituals -- Maternal nursing and wet nurses : feeding and caring for infants -- Parents and children : competing values.

"This book presents a synthetic history of the family - the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities - Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history."--Jacket.

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