Medieval Mothering
Published on 1. April 1996
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-8153-2341-9 (ISBN)
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First published in 1996, this study offers a broad range of approaches to medieval society's undertanding of mothering and the uses to which the practice and imagery of mothering could be assumed by females and males alike. In 19 original theoretical essays, medical and literary sources to establish that for male commentators are examined, as well as the narrowly biological, female parameters of maternity which were insistently supplanted by images of nurturant mothering, an ungendered activity that could be preempted and associated with male behavior. The remainder focus on representations of motherhood in Old Norse and Icelandic literatures, and on record evidence for the maternal behavior of actual mothers in medieval France, England, and Spain.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bosa Roca
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8153-2341-9 (9780815323419)
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Content
Introduction: Medieval Mothering, Medieval Motherers John C.Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler 1.Nurturing Danger: High Medieval Medicine and the Problem(s) of the Child William F.MacLehose 2.Milk of Christ: Herzeloyde as Spiritual Symbol in Wolfram von Esenbach's Parzival Patricia Ann Quatirin 3.Occlusion of Maternity in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale Allyson Newton 4.Joseph as Mother: Adaptation and Appropriation in the Construction of Male Virtue Rosemary Drage Hale 5.Is Mother Superior? Towards a History of Feminine Amtscharism Felice Lifshitz 6.Maternity in Aelred of Rievaulx's Letter to his Sister Susanna Greer Fein 7."In the Meyden's Womb": Julian of Norwich and the Poetics of Enclosure Maud Burnett McInerney 8.Female Networks for Fostering Lady Lisle's Daughters Barbara A.Hanawalt 9.Looking for Grandmothers: The Pastons and their Counterparts in Late Medieval England Joel Rosenthal 10.Empress Matilda and her Sons Marjorie Chibnall 11.Public Lives, Private Ties: Royal Mothers in England and Scotland, 1070-1204 Lois L.Huneycutt 12.Adela of Blois as Mother and Countess Kimberley A.LoPrete 13.Berenguela of Castile's Political Motherhood: The Management of Sexuality, Marriage, and Succession Miriam Shadis