TY - BOOK AU - Baumgarten,Elisheva TI - Mothers and children: Jewish family life in medieval Europe T2 - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world SN - 9781400849260 AV - BM726 .B3813 2004eb U1 - 306.874/3/08992404 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Princeton, New Jersey PB - Princeton University Press KW - Childbirth KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism KW - Motherhood KW - Customs and practices KW - Parent and child KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Cultural Policy KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - Popular Culture KW - HISTORY KW - Medieval KW - fast KW - Joden KW - gtt KW - Gezin KW - Judentum KW - swd KW - Familie KW - Juden KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; 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 N2 - "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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=644638 ER -