A Wet Nurse Debate: Jews, Christians, and Later Medieval “Racism”

This paper surveys both the ecclesiastical and medical or natural-philosophical sources that contributed to a protracted medieval debate over maternal nursing versus the employment of wet nurses; examines Innocent III’s allegation that Jews force their Christian wet nurses to pour out their milk for...

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Main Author: Resnick, Irven M. 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Medieval encounters
Year: 2024, Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Pages: 465-504
Further subjects:B moriscas
B conversas
B cross-confessional nursing
B Jewish and Christian wet nurses
B Race
B Eucharistic Theology
B Talmud
B Pope Innocent III
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520 |a It is clear that medieval Jews employed Christian wet nurses, as well as other Christian domestic servants, and that ecclesiastical condemnations did not prevail against social and economic interests. In Etsi Judeos Pope Innocent III, who had earlier complained loudly that Jews across France are unscrupulous usurers, thieves, blasphemers, and secret murderers of Christians, added the unsubstantiated complaint that “on the day of the Lord’s Resurrection,” i.e., Easter, after they have received the Eucharist, “the Jews make these women,” that is, Christian wet nurses, “pour their milk into the latrine for three days before they again give suck to the children.” 
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