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

By: Language: English Original language: Hebrew Series: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern worldPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2004Description: 1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400849260
  • 1400849268
  • 0691130299
  • 9780691130293
Uniform titles: אמהות וילדים בחברה היהודית בימי הביניים. אנגלית Uniform titles:
  • Imahot ì-yeladim ba-ḥevrah ha-Yehudit bi-Yeme ha-Benayim. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mothers and children : Jewish family life in medieval Europe.DDC classification:
  • 306.874/3/08992404 22
LOC classification:
  • BM726 .B3813 2004eb
Other classification:
  • 15.70
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. Birth -- Ch. 2. Circumcision and baptism -- Ch. 3. Additional birth rituals -- Ch. 4. Maternal nursing and wet nurses : feeding and caring for infants -- Ch. 5. 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 bibliographical references (pages 243-268) and index.

Print version record.

Ch. 1. Birth -- Ch. 2. Circumcision and baptism -- Ch. 3. Additional birth rituals -- Ch. 4. Maternal nursing and wet nurses : feeding and caring for infants -- Ch. 5. 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.

Translated from the Hebrew.

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