Cristina Pinheiro
Universidade da Madeira, Artes E Humanidades, Faculty Member
- Women's Studies, Family studies, Roman Imperial Women, Hellenistic and Roman East; Hellenistic Queens, Imperial Women and the Roman Client Queens, Death and Bereavment, Women in the Renaissance, and 40 moreMedical Humanities, Latin Literature, Early Modern Europe, Women in the ancient world, Vergil, Augustus, Ancient Greek Medicine, History of Medicine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Roman Emperors, Ovid Metamorphoses, The Reception of Vergil, Women in the Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, Early modern medicine, Early Modern Women Medicine Midwifery, Languages and Linguistics, Cultural History, Archaeology, Archaeology of Childhood, Classics, History of Science, Ancient Medicine, History of the Body, History of Medicine and the Body, History of Sexuality, History of Childhood and Youth, Hysteria, History of Medicine, Augustan Principate, Gender Studies, Social History of Medicine, History of Anatomy, Roman History, Gender and Sexuality, Galen, Roman Historiography, Early Modern Literature, Paulus of Egina, Oribasius, Galenus, and Procne, Tereus, Philomelaedit
- University of Madeira, Faculty of Arts and Humanities.University of Lisbon, Centre of Classical Studies. PhD (2009) O... moreUniversity of Madeira, Faculty of Arts and Humanities.University of Lisbon, Centre of Classical Studies. PhD (2009) Orbae Matres: A dor da mãe pela perda de um filho na Literatura Latina.edit
The Project “Gynecia: Rodericus a Castro Lusitanus and the ancient medical tradition about gynaecology and embryology” organizes, on March 26th and 27th 2020, at Colégio dos Jesuítas of Universidade da Madeira, the II International... more
The Project “Gynecia: Rodericus a Castro Lusitanus and the ancient medical tradition about gynaecology and embryology” organizes, on March 26th and 27th 2020, at Colégio dos Jesuítas of Universidade da Madeira, the II International Gynecia Conference, dedicated to the theme “Gynaecology and embryology in Ancient, Medieval and Early-Modern Texts”. The primary aim of the conference is to address all the possible facets and complexities of this theme, within the context of Western Medicine. Scholars working in an area related to the theme of the project and interested in participating in the Conference are invited to send a proposal.
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Abstract: Pliny considered breast milk one of the most beneficial medicinal substances, a much praised ingredient in all treatises about materia medica due to its healing qualities. Still, the medical texts about female nature and... more
Abstract: Pliny considered breast milk one of the most beneficial medicinal
substances, a much praised ingredient in all treatises about materia medica due to its
healing qualities. Still, the medical texts about female nature and diseases weave a series
of considerations about the qualities of breast milk, especially in the first weeks after
birth, and question the advantages for the newborn being breastfed by the mother.
Taking this reflection as a basis, we assess the importance granted to breastfeeding
in Roman society, where hiring wetnurses seems to have been a common practice.
We analyse texts that provide information about how to feed a newborn and how
wetnurses should live, in order to perceive the cultural construction of motherhood
and the expected nature of the relationship between the mother and her children.
Keywords: Children/Childhood/Newborn in Greece and Rome; Ancient medicine;
Breastfeeding; Motherhood; Soranus of Ephesus.
substances, a much praised ingredient in all treatises about materia medica due to its
healing qualities. Still, the medical texts about female nature and diseases weave a series
of considerations about the qualities of breast milk, especially in the first weeks after
birth, and question the advantages for the newborn being breastfed by the mother.
Taking this reflection as a basis, we assess the importance granted to breastfeeding
in Roman society, where hiring wetnurses seems to have been a common practice.
We analyse texts that provide information about how to feed a newborn and how
wetnurses should live, in order to perceive the cultural construction of motherhood
and the expected nature of the relationship between the mother and her children.
Keywords: Children/Childhood/Newborn in Greece and Rome; Ancient medicine;
Breastfeeding; Motherhood; Soranus of Ephesus.
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The Project “Gynecia: Rodericus a Castro Lusitanus and the ancient medical tradition about gynaecology and embryology” organizes, on March 26th and 27th 2020, at Colégio dos Jesuítas of Universidade da Madeira, the II International... more
The Project “Gynecia: Rodericus a Castro Lusitanus and the ancient medical tradition about gynaecology and embryology” organizes, on March 26th and 27th 2020, at Colégio dos Jesuítas of Universidade da Madeira, the II International Gynecia Conference, dedicated to the theme “Gynaecology and embryology in Ancient, Medieval and Early-Modern Texts”. The primary aim of the conference is to address all the possible facets and complexities of this theme, within the context of Western Medicine. Scholars working in an area related to the theme of the project and interested in participating in the Conference are invited to send a proposal.
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Realiza-se no próximo dia 12 de Abril, na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, o 1º ciclo de conferências "Gynecia", organizadas no âmbito do projecto “Gynecia: Rodrigo de Castro Lusitano e a tradição médica antiga sobre... more
Realiza-se no próximo dia 12 de Abril, na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, o 1º ciclo de conferências "Gynecia", organizadas no âmbito do projecto “Gynecia: Rodrigo de Castro Lusitano e a tradição médica antiga sobre ginecologia e embriologia”, financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia e que resulta de uma parceria entre a Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa e a Faculdade de Artes e Humanidades da Universidade da Madeira. Este evento conta com a participação de especialistas em Estudos Clássicos e em História da Ciência e da Medicina e tem como objectivo desenvolver uma reflexão acerca da influência da medicina antiga na obra de Rodrigo de Castro Lusitano e na medicina renascentista em geral.
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Augustus and the kids: family and childhood in Augustus’ policies and in Augustan literature Cristina Santos Pinheiro Universidade da Madeira Centro de Estudos Clássicos/FLUL The Age of Augustus was crucial in the establishment of... more
Augustus and the kids: family and childhood in Augustus’ policies and in Augustan literature
Cristina Santos Pinheiro
Universidade da Madeira
Centro de Estudos Clássicos/FLUL
The Age of Augustus was crucial in the establishment of new ideas aiming at shaping families. Augustus’ moral laws, implementing measures relating to marriage, procreation and adultery, introduced in Roman culture a marked dichotomy between an ideal they try to restore and a reality that, by then, was far removed from the exempla of the past. Based on these “new laws” (that’s how Augustus himself calls them in his Res Gestae), the Princeps creates an image of himself and his family as guarantors of stability in which public and private are intermingled. This new appreciation of motherhood is a cornerstone in political discourse and determines women’s status.
The representation of children and childhood assumes a new visibility, becoming more complex and merging topics related to the establishment of a new political and social order. Most studies about childhood in Rome identify at this time a change in attitudes towards children. As prisoners of war paraded in triumphal processions or as princes presented as successors, political and moral ideals are projected on them, but these ideals are strange and combine poorly with the fragility and tenderness generated by the sight of these children. From Vergil’s Eclogue 4 to Horace’s Roman Odes, and even in texts such as Propertius’ Elegiae, motherhood and birth are presented in relation with a thematic network that attributes to the Princeps changes considered crucial in Roman history and society. The presence of children in official monuments like the Ara Pacis suggests a new look upon dynastic questions, but more importantly, it asserts Romanitas as an ethnic, moral and political concept. In this paper, we analyse the value that is attached to childhood in Augustan literature and how it is connected with images of fertility and public safety, but also to national identity.
Cristina Santos Pinheiro
Universidade da Madeira
Centro de Estudos Clássicos/FLUL
The Age of Augustus was crucial in the establishment of new ideas aiming at shaping families. Augustus’ moral laws, implementing measures relating to marriage, procreation and adultery, introduced in Roman culture a marked dichotomy between an ideal they try to restore and a reality that, by then, was far removed from the exempla of the past. Based on these “new laws” (that’s how Augustus himself calls them in his Res Gestae), the Princeps creates an image of himself and his family as guarantors of stability in which public and private are intermingled. This new appreciation of motherhood is a cornerstone in political discourse and determines women’s status.
The representation of children and childhood assumes a new visibility, becoming more complex and merging topics related to the establishment of a new political and social order. Most studies about childhood in Rome identify at this time a change in attitudes towards children. As prisoners of war paraded in triumphal processions or as princes presented as successors, political and moral ideals are projected on them, but these ideals are strange and combine poorly with the fragility and tenderness generated by the sight of these children. From Vergil’s Eclogue 4 to Horace’s Roman Odes, and even in texts such as Propertius’ Elegiae, motherhood and birth are presented in relation with a thematic network that attributes to the Princeps changes considered crucial in Roman history and society. The presence of children in official monuments like the Ara Pacis suggests a new look upon dynastic questions, but more importantly, it asserts Romanitas as an ethnic, moral and political concept. In this paper, we analyse the value that is attached to childhood in Augustan literature and how it is connected with images of fertility and public safety, but also to national identity.
