{"product_id":"mothers-and-children-9780691130293","title":"Mothers and Children","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents a synthetic history of the family in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, this book advances efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. It provides an analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2008 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Gender Studies, Association for Jewish Studies Winner of the 2005 Koret Jewish Book Award in History, Koret Foundation Runner-Up for the 2005 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies category, Jewish Book Council \"Baumgarten's writing of Ashkenaz medieval history as seen through a gender perspective advances a more inclusive reading of Jewish history.\"--Jewish Book World \"[T]horoughly researched and lucidly written... Baumgarten has opened an erudite and well-constructed window into an area of Jewish life ... that has long eluded sustained productive treatment by modern scholarship. She has advanced the field considerably in this estimable work.\"--Ephraim Kanarfogel, American Historical Review \"[Baumgarten's] scholarship is thorough and meticulous, and her judgment is intelligent and reliable... She has thus made a major contribution in so carefully and convincingly delineating the interconnections of medieval Jewish and Christian family life.\"--Sarah Lipton, Medieval Review \"In Elisheva Baumgarten's erudite and captivating chronicle of Jewish family life in the Middle Ages, several surprising revelations may cause us to rethink our presumptions about medieval Jewish women... Baumgarten displays not only mastery of Jewish sources, but a considerable familiarity with Christian texts and anthropological literature.\"--David Wolpe, The Jerusalem Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations ix  Acknowledgments xi  Abbreviations xv  Introduction 1  Chapter One. Birth 21  Chapter Two. Circumcision and Baptism 55  Chapter Three. Additional Birth Rituals 92  Chapter Four. Maternal Nursing and Wet Nurses: Feeding and Caring for Infants 119  Chapter Five. Parents and Children: Competing Values 154  Conclusions 184  Notes 191  Glossary 241  Bibliography 243  Index 269","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403748712791,"sku":"9780691130293","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691130293.jpg?v=1730484433","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mothers-and-children-9780691130293","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}