Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe - Elisheva Baumgarten
Family History and Gender Studies Until recently, motherhood and childhood were considered subjects without history.^4 Many scho ...
lished in edited volumes on medieval motherhood, have examined attitudes toward motherhood and the medieval reality of mothers’ ...
late a separate female sphere. Such a female sphere was suggested both by more traditional historical writings, which allocated ...
pects of this well-documented world. The question of how to view Jewish so- ciety in light of this research and within the broad ...
changes and investigates to what extent changes that began earlier were ac- centuated, continued, or transformed after the mid–f ...
In short, the geographical and chronological frameworks examined here ac- cord with those commonly employed when studying Christ ...
guage—the local vernaculars in which they conducted their everyday business and family life.^35 They also shared many beliefs, v ...
became aware of aspects of Christian life by receiving securities that had specif- ically religious connotations, or when busine ...
torians of medieval Ashkenaz in the nineteenth century. However, an addi- tional dominant emphasis in many of those studies was ...
flected the foci of historical research generally during these years; family his- tory and gender studies were not yet prominent ...
With the growing interest in the lives of women in the past, this too has been changing. One of the most important works reflect ...
and Christian practices, I have used this knowledge to help fill in the missing details. The dangers of such practice are obviou ...
Parents and Children in Medieval Ashkenaz Fifteen years ago, Louise Tilly and Miriam Cohen drew attention to the fact that famil ...
nity—for example, the idea that childhood was a more poorly demarcated pe- riod of life and that the lack of distinguishing term ...
ist (ethnocentric) positions. I have taken as a given that medieval Jewish soci- ety, like all of medieval society, was patriarc ...
The Sources The sources that provide the basis for this study are varied and were, for the most part, written in northern France ...
cuss the family. Consequently, the evidence in the sources must be examined both in its context and in a broader perspective. Th ...
marketplace—we can assume that they often took their young children with them, even if there is little evidence of such outings. ...
The first chapter traces family life from marriage and the period before con- ception, to birth and practices surrounding birth, ...
Chapter One BIRTH For the first three months the embryo dwells in the lower compartment; the next three months in the middle com ...
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