Breastfeeding and weaning in renaissance Italy: the Medici children.
Identifieur interne : 000333 ( Main/Exploration ); précédent : 000332; suivant : 000334Breastfeeding and weaning in renaissance Italy: the Medici children.
Auteurs : Valentina Giuffra [Italie] ; Gino FornaciariSource :
- Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine [ 1556-8342 ] ; 2013.
Descripteurs français
- Wicri :
- geographic : Italie.
English descriptors
- KwdEn :
- Age Factors, Breast Feeding (history), Carbon Isotopes (metabolism), Child, Preschool, Diet (history), Family Health, Famous Persons, Female, History, 16th Century, History, 17th Century, History, 18th Century, Home Nursing, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Italy, Male, Milk, Human (chemistry), Nitrogen Isotopes (metabolism), Paleopathology (methods), Pregnancy, Weaning.
- MESH :
- chemical , metabolism : Carbon Isotopes, Nitrogen Isotopes.
- geographic : Italy.
- chemistry : Milk, Human.
- history : Breast Feeding, Diet.
- methods : Paleopathology.
- Age Factors, Child, Preschool, Family Health, Famous Persons, Female, History, 16th Century, History, 17th Century, History, 18th Century, Home Nursing, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Pregnancy, Weaning.
Abstract
Abstract Exploration of the Medici Chapels in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence, Italy, revealed the burials of nine infantile members of the Medici family. Eight children were found in the intact tomb of the last Grand Duke GianGastone (1671-1737), and another child was exhumed from the Chapel of Grand Duke Ferdinando I (1549-1609). Skeletal ages ranged from newborn to 5 years, suggesting an identification with infantile members of the family. A paleonutritional study has been performed on the bone samples of all members of the Medici family exhumed so far. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of bone collagen was used to detect the timing of the weaning process in this population. The (15)N values of the Medici children are significantly higher than those of adults, indicating that these infants were breastfed for a long time period. In particular, the levels of (15)N are high before the second year but decrease in older children, evidently after weaning, reaching the levels of adults. During the Renaissance, it was the common opinion that children should not be weaned before the second year of life. Archival documents suggest that the Medici children were never weaned before that age and, in most cases, even some months later. Combination of paleonutritional data and historical sources allowed reconstruction of the breastfeeding and weaning patterns of this aristocratic Renaissance class.
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2012.0060
PubMed: 23259644
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