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The oldest vocation: Christian motherhood in the Middle Ages

Clarissa W. Atkinson 1991 © Cornell University Press
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Series
  • ATLA Special Series
ISBN(s)
  • 9781501740886 (paper)
  • 9780801420719 (hardcover)
  • 9781501740909 (ebook)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Abbreviations (page xi)
  • I. Christian Motherhood: "Who Is My Mother?" (page 1)
  • 2. Physiological Motherhood: The Wandering Womb (page 23)
  • 3. Spiritual Motherhood: Extraordinary Women in the Early Middle Ages (page 64)
  • 4. Theological Motherhood: The Virgin Mother of God (page 101)
  • 5. "Mother of Love, Mother of Tears": Holiness and Families in the Later Middle Ages (page 144)
  • 6. Motherhood Reformed: The Parson's Wife and Her Children (page 194)
  • 7. The Construction of Motherhood (page 236)
  • Works Cited (page 247)
  • Index (page 263)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 98.3 (jun. 1993): 846-847 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199306%2998%3A3%3C846%3ATOVCMI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7
SP 68.3 (Jul. 1993): 715-717 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-7134%28199307%2968%3A3%3C715%3ATOVCMI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
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