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Motherhood, religion, and society in medieval Europe, 400-1400 : essays presented to Henrietta Leyser
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Motherhood remains 'the oldest vocation', and perhaps for that reason one of the least studied or understood. To move the discussion forward, this volume spans the full length and breadth of the Mi...
Motherhood remains 'the oldest vocation', and perhaps for that reason one of the least studied or understood. To move the discussion forward, this volume spans the full length and breadth of the Middle Ages, from late Roman North Africa through ninth-century Byzantium to late medieval Somerset.
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- edited by Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith
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- English
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- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xv, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781409431459, 1409431452, 9781409431466, 1409431460, 9781409431466
- OCLC
- ocn717295370
- "Henrietta Leyser: principal publications"-Page 365-366.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-363) and index.
- 1. Augustine and Monnica / Kate Cooper -- 2. From Maternal Kin to Jesus as Mother: Royal Genealogy and Marian Devotion in the Ninth-century West / Conrad Leyser -- 3. Dhuoda on Dreams / Janet L. Nelson -- 4. Motherhood and Power in Early Medieval Europe, West and East: The Strange Case of the Empress Eirene / Mark Whittow -- 5. In Search of the Good Mother: Twelfth-century Celibacy and Affectivity / Brian Patrick McGuire -- 6. Twelfth-century English Mothers / Henry Mayr-Harting -- 7. Did Mothers Teach their Children to Read? / Michael Clanchy -- 8. Who is my Mother? Honouring Parents in Medieval Exegesis of the Ten Commandments / Lesley Smith -- 9. Making Motherhood in Medieval England: The Evidence from Medicine / Monica H. Green -- 10. Obstacles to Motherhood / Tony Hunt -- 11. A Mother's Past and her Children's Futures: Female Inheritance, Family and Dynastic Hospitals in the Thirteenth Century / Sethina Watson -- 12. Becoming the Theotokos: Birgitta of Sweden and Fulfilment of Salvation History / Samuel Fanous -- 13. Mothers and Orphans in Fourteenth-century London / Claire A. Martin -- 14. Mother or Stepmother to History? Joan de Mohun and her Chronicle / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne