Mothering in Antiquity
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978-1-032-54655-1 (ISBN)
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Bringing together a group of leading international scholars, the volume explores how mothering was experienced, represented, and ritualized across diverse ancient societies—from the Near East through Greece and Rome to Byzantium. Moving beyond text-centred and androcentric perspectives, it combines interdisciplinary approaches from history, archaeology, religious studies, and gender theory. Contributors engage with key concepts from maternal theory to bridge the gap between symbolic representations of motherhood and the lived realities of mothers in antiquity.
Mothering in Antiquity is an extensive, cross-cultural exploration of motherhood in the ancient world, suitable for students and scholars in Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, Religious Studies, and Gender Studies.
Giulia Pedrucci is a postdoctoral fellow at Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia). Her research explores the religious dimensions of motherhood in antiquity. She has published, among other works, a monograph, two edited volumes, and an article in Numen outlining a new subfield between Motherhood and Religious Studies.
Introduction. Bridging Motherhood as Institution and Mothering as Practice; Studying Mothers, Motherhood and Mothering in Antiquity through a Matricentric Epistemological Framework: An Introduction - Florence Pasche Guignard and Giulia Pedrucci; Part I. Mothers in Biological and Medical Contexts; 1. Becoming a Mother in Mesopotamia: Biological and Social Aspects - Laura Battini; 2. Breastfeeding, Co-breastfeeding, and Weaning in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Literary Sources and Archaeological Evidence in Dialogue - Giulia Pedrucci and Carlo Cocozza; 3. Birth Control and Abortion in the Graeco-Roman World, 500 BCE–750 CE - Laurence Totelin; 4. Afterbirth and Genius: Beliefs and Symbolism among the Romans and Other Peoples - Attilio Mastrocinque; 5. Contraception and Birth Control through Rabbinic Eyes: Ancient Competing Models of Mothering - Avraham Yoskovich; Part II. Mothers in Archaeology: Material Evidence and Practices; 6. The Bio-archaeology of Mothers: Approaches to Motherhood and Kinship in European Prehistory - Katharina Rebay-Salisbury; 7. Mothers in Bone and Stone in the Bronze Age Aegean - Stephanie L. Budin; 8. Representing Motherhood in Archaic Cyprus - Emma de Koning; 9. Motherhood and Infancy in Latium Vetus during the Iron Age within Pre-Roman Italy - Francesca Fulminante; 10. Invisible Motherhood in Italy before the Roman Conquest - Massimiliano di Fazio; 11. Etruscan Mothers: An Archaeological Perspective - Elisabetta Govi and Chiara Pizzirani; 12. “ativu sacniśa aturś”: Seeking the Evidence of Mothering in Ancient Etruria - Jean MacIntosh Turfa; 13. Mediating Religious Narratives through Small Protecting Items: Archaeological Data from Votive and Funerary Contexts in Archaic Sicily - Gabriella Sciortino; 14. Being a Mother: Experiencing Mothering and Motherhood in the Phoenician-Punic World - Meritxell Ferrer Martín and Mireia López-Bertran; 15. Between Archaeological and Figurative Evidence of Mothering in Ancient Gaul and Beyond - Fabienne Dugast; Part III. Mothers in Texts: Norms, Myths, Ideals; 16. Mothers in Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom Literature - Annunziata Rositani; 17. The Mother in Mesopotamian Narratives - Lorenzo Verderame; 18. Motherhood in the Hebrew Bible - Marco Pavan; 19. Medea, the Murderous Mother - Augusto Cosentino; 20. Between Physical and Spiritual Dimensions: Motherhood in Ancient Christianity and Its Implications - Roberta Franchi; 21. Emmelia, Her Relationship to Her Many Children, and the Idealised Representations by Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzen (4th c. CE) - Ilaria L. E. Ramelli; 22. Spiritual Mothers and Real Mothers: Motherhood in Syriac Sources between Practice and Idealization - Claudia Tavolieri; 23. Motherhood in Christian Apocryphal Literature - Gabriella Aragione; 24. Writing Motherhood in Early Islam: Religious and Literary Texts - Roberta Denaro; 25. Islamic Perspectives on Mothers as Norm Transgressors in Early Islamic Sources - Darai Saddik and Jaouad Agudal; Part IV. Mothers in Political and Legal Contexts; 26. Preserving the Patrimony: Mothers as Agents of Their Sons’ Legal Interests in Babylonia - John P. Nielsen; 27. Materna Potestas: Maternal Agency and Marriage Decisions in Roman Times - Cristina Soraci; 28. Maxentius and Eutropia: An Interdisciplinary Case Study on an Early 4th-Century Syrian Christian Motherhood - Diego Serra and Pedro David Conesa Navarro; 29. Seneca’s Mothers: Parenting Strategies, Power, Myth, and Representation at the End of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty - Rosa M.ª Marina Sáez; 30. From Goddess to God: The Shift in Religious Authority and Its Impact on Motherhood in Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Times - Nina Käsehage; Part V. Mothers in Social and Religious Contexts; 31. Mothers and Motherhood in the Ancient Near East from Cuneiform Adoptions - Daniel Justel Vicente; 32. Tracing Maternal Filiations in Middle Kingdom Stelae: Reaching the Afterlife through Motherhood in Ancient Egypt - Beatriz Noria-Serrano; 33. Motherhood and Child-Rearing in Ancient Israel - Kristine Henriksen Garroway; 34. Nurses, Weavers, and Myths: Mothering Individuals as Primary Religious Enculturators in the Ancient Southern Levant - Jonathon Riley; 35. Motherhood and Mothering in Ancient Greek Religion - Matthew Dillon; 36. Mothers, Mother-Figures, and Child Care in Roman Egypt - April Pudsey and Ville Vuolanto; 37. Motherhood and Mothering Experiences in the Byzantine World - Despoina Ariantzi
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Rewriting Antiquity |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 68 Halftones, black and white; 72 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-54655-7 / 1032546557 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-54655-1 / 9781032546551 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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