Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe - Elisheva Baumgarten
mation of the fetus and the development of the different parts of his body, the determination of the gender of the fetus was att ...
In summary, our sources document both the religious and personal signifi- cance attributed to birth. For women, birth was the fu ...
the Rosh, R. Asher b. Yeh·iel (1250–1327). He discusses a case in which a man accuses his wife of not being “like all other wome ...
century. While the thirteenth century was a time of rapid change and increased legislation in the medical profession, midwifery ...
the case of Sefer Assaf, it is questionable to what extent the cures he suggests were really used, as some of them seem very exo ...
there are some references to older women bewitching women in childbirth, they seem to be the exception to the rule. The referenc ...
Yoh·ani is not called a midwife in any source. Rather she is referred to as a witch (makhshefah). She does not help the women ph ...
pray to Jesus. This is merely one of many examples of a shared culture with clear religious distinctions. Not only were pregnant ...
Christian midwives was less frequently repeated. While the prohibition against employing Christian wet nurses is repeated more t ...
H·asidim mentions a Jew who held a Christian medical textbook in security for a loan.^159 R. Gershom’s manual, mentioned before, ...
“miracles” at time of birth. For example, Vincent de Beauvais (d. 1064), as well as others, relates cases in which the Virgin Ma ...
The newborns remained with their mother and her attendants during the weeks following birth. If the newborn was a boy, he was se ...
or died at birth, or if the mother herself died during childbirth, it was she who informed the waiting father. Although the midw ...
Chapter Two CIRCUMCISION AND BAPTISM The baptism of Jews includes a peculiar custom: they per- form it by cutting. —Wolfram von ...
studies. The first approach, the psychoanalytic one, has attempted to integrate Freudian theory and interpret circumcision as an ...
The last part of the chapter will suggest a social interpretation of the ceremony and present Jewish society in light of this ri ...
tice.^17 The ritual underwent a number of changes during the Middle Ages. After the Synod of Canterbury (1214), it became increa ...
connection between the two families.^23 Women, on the other hand, chose their co-mothers from among their close friends. This ge ...
Figure 1. Circumcision and Baptism, Joshua in Gilgal. Bible moralisée, France 1220– 1229, Vienna Österreichische Nationalbibliot ...
Christians, Judaism and Christianity. As the paradigm of the unique features of Jews and Christians, they served to mark the dis ...
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