The Oldest Vocation : Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West /

"After tracing the roots of medieval ideologies of motherhood in early Christianity, the author reconstructs the physiological assumptions underlying medieval notions about women's bodies and reproduction. She then describes the development of "spiritual motherhood" both as a con...

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Váldodahkki: Atkinson, Clarissa W.
Materiálatiipa: Elektrovnnalaš E-girji
Giella:eaŋgalasgiella
Almmustuhtton: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Ráidu:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sisdoallologahallan:
  • Christian motherhood: "Who is my mother"?
  • Physiological motherhood: The wandering womb
  • Spiritual motherhood: Extraordinary women in the early Middle Ages
  • Theological motherhood: The Virgin Mother of God
  • "Mother of love, mother of tears": Holiness and families in the later Middle Ages
  • Motherhood reformed: The parson's wife and her children
  • The construction of motherhood.