Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe - Elisheva Baumgarten

in Jewish attitudes, severely restricting the remarriage of divorcées and widows
was the ruling of R. Tam, in the second half of the twelfth century, which was
accepted and vehemently enforced by the generations that followed. Over and
above concern for the welfare of the infant, R. Tam’s ruling is based on the di-
vision of child care in medieval society and its understandings of parenting and
its responsibilities. We will now turn to examine these understandings in the
medieval context.

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