Don't ask a medieval lady to do THIS...

[@nenabunena]

I really appreciate you recommending books for further reading

[@thunderbear91]

Could you possibly make a video on a what if alternative. Would the crusades ever happen if the Byzantine Empire won Manzikert and kept Anatolia? Was the spirit of the movement already in motion and would occur regardless of Byzantine developments?

[@emmapridemore5403]

I love seeing videos about Medieval women :)

[@johnadams3368]

Ok, thanks for advising me on my courtship.

[@Ricca_Day]

Moses's mother served as his wet nurse after he was rescued from the Nile by Pharaoh's daughter. Is that the first recorded instance of wet nursing?

[@hyperspacejester7377]

I think Romulus and Remus were wet nursed a few years before that!? 😀

[@rustyshackelford3590]

Hyperspace Jester yeah by a wolf

[@Ricca_Day]

Hyperspace Jester I actually thought of them, too, but they were purportedly born around 770 B.C. And Moses was around 1393 B.C. or thereabouts. Either way, it's a storied tradition to say the least!

[@slappy8941]

The story of Moses isn't even true because it was taken from the Epic of Gilgamesh.

[@Ricca_Day]

Slappy Not debating the historicity with you. You are entitled to your opinion, as I am to mine. Blessings.

[@mbgal7758]

It’s so crazy to think that there was a time when you could look back in history and think ‘you know a thousand years ago they must have known more about medicine than we do now let’s go back to doing things that way’. 😧

[@brianfuller7691]

Always interesting videos, thanks

[@joshcruise2657]

I love your videos on medieval society, they are so interesting. As far as I could find the Catholic Church today teaches that wet-nurses should be used to supplement or replace for a mother who can't lactate enough or at all. Breast milk is superior to formula and gives antibodies from the woman to help the child's immune system and is far easier to digest.

[@katiestevenson8920]

Interesting video! Will you please share the name of the black and white drawing you included of the mother and her children?

[@marijeangalloway1560]

We are shown the important place of a child's nurse in the medieval family in Shakespeare's

[@Cpripri85]

This is truly interesting and fascinating

[@acrusader.1801]

RTF!!

[@daveallentown6868]

In answer to the question "Why wet-nursing?" I would offer that convenience and self-indulgence were major causes. In medieval times the gamut of sins of our secular modern society were also prevalent, but no one publicly disavowed Christianity. Our modern view that disparages medieval society for its religiosity clouds our understanding.

[@francikoen]

Male doctors discouraged high born ladies from nursing their own babies. Males have not got a clue regarding female biological responsibilities. Yet the wealthy listened to them any way.

[@joehayward2631]

Now we know how important it is for mother to nurse baby for first months

[@macnutz4206]

That was very interesting and edifying. Those Greeks certainly had long lasting cultural, medical, and scientific influence in the world.

[@luciarosselini6199]

Thank you

[@luciarosselini6199]

I remember my boy cousins fighting over the breast like they understood and spoke English and Italian and we're fist fighting it was always a competition and if you look at the hedges brothers Christopher and Peter there are British example of having children close in age but the mental capability and the psychological capability is so beneficial to a child the nurse from its own mother longtime health jmo

[@lorenwegele4250]

Interesting topic!

[@swagalisgoodra2121]

I kinda find wet nursing appalling. Sometimes it has to be done for the mother cannot produce milk, but if the mother can produce good milk, she should nurse her own children.

[@XX-gy7ue]

up to about 100 years ago it was common for people to have ' milk ' siblings , and neighbors often suckled their neighbors children along with their own ! as for me , if I were rich , I'd never leave the tit , what could be as lovely as this activity !

[@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535]

Smiles at you from a real life wet nurse! ( I agree!)

[@XX-gy7ue]

@Anita McGuire , GOD BLESS THE HIPPIES , WHATEVER GOOD TAKING PLACE ON THE PLANET TODAY , CAN BE TRACED BACK TO THEM !! get over your bigoted self !!

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

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[@danielandres1579]

Video on the Maronites and their alliance with the Crusaders please 🇱🇧

[@confusedsay]

Sounds like someone I want to date

[@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535]

Hi! .......Smiles at you!

[@kdiggs5487]

🤷‍♀️as long as baby gets fed.

[@kevinnorwood8782]

The Tudors, Season 2: (Henry VIII is watching Anne Boleyn with their infant daughter Elizabeth, and notices Anne is about to breastfeed Elizabeth) Henry: What are you doing? Anne: May I not feet her from my own breast? Henry: Tsk, tsk, tsk. Queens don't do that, especially not for a daughter. Give her back to her wet nurse.

[@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535]

I saw that too...poor Anne!

[@marijeangalloway1560]

An apocryphal story: Anne would have known perfectly well that she would not be nursing her child, and the wet nurse would have been chosen in advance and been already present at the time of the birth. Anne would have been aware that she was expected to return to Henry's bed as soon as possible to try to get pregnant again, and it was known that nursing women were much less likely conceive. In Anne's case, especially, as we know (and as she certainly knew herself) she really needed to get pregnant again right away, to hopefully produce that male heir Henry wanted so desperately, and demanded that she provide. She ultimately did not succeed in doing this, and we know the price she paid for what the tyrannical king saw as her "failure." P

[@519forestmonk9]

This guy is so handsome.

[@junebyrne4491]

Maggie Lynn I think you mean Peter Sarsgaard. But he played The son of Athos. Not sure if that is who you were thinking of.

[@XX-gy7ue]

the prophet Isaiah mentioned wet nursing !

[@XX-gy7ue]

@Maggie Lynn , in his descriptions of the prosperity of the people

[@MsAngelique]

Wet Nursing is an excellent option if you're unable to produce breast milk.

[@MsAngelique]

@Anita McGuire I'm aware. That's why I said it was an excellent option.

[@antoinelambert938]

Godefroi's mother was a saint yet as far as I know haven't even been beatified despite all he did, including his livestyle. Once again the Church in its God given wisdom, opposed the bad ideas of ancient greece.

[@thehussarsjacobitess85]

It's such an unnatural practice. Yes, it enabled a noblewoman to continue being her husband's companion, but it's such a violation of what our bodies and hearts want after giving birth (barring complications like postnatal depression).

[@mizelenious5940]

post-modern drivel. when you knew 1/2 your kids would die before the age of 3, what you heart feels is inconsequential.

[@francikoen]

The Hussar's Jacobitess. Yes, wet nurses were unnatural and unhealthy. Except in the rare cases where the mother could not produce enough milk. Wet nurses were promoted by *male doctors pushing* supposedly male values of immediate, immediate, immediate fertility... to the detriment of mother and baby. *Males are clueless regarding female and neo-natal biological health and well-being.*

[@francikoen]

Nursing does NOT preclude being a companion to one's husband. But wet nurses were unnatural and unhealthy.