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Mothers and Children : Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe /

"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 Jewi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Baumgarten, Elisheva
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Hebrew
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.