In 19 essays, this study offers a range of approaches to medieval society's understanding of mothering and the uses to which the practice and imagery of mothering could be assumed by females and males alike. The study also focuses on representations of motherhood in Old Norse and Icelandic literatures, and on record evidence for the maternal behaviour of actual mothers in medieval France, England and Spain.
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The editors are to be congratulated on the sensitivity with which they have placed the essays in linked groupings, and the individual contributors on their scholarship. The essays are highly readable and, as well as being insightful, provide excellent guidelines for future study.
–Parergon
The collection provides an exciting and insightful overview of medieval mothering, one that significantly enhances our appreciation of both the medieval theory and practice of this complex activity.
–The Medieval Review
–Parergon
The collection provides an exciting and insightful overview of medieval mothering, one that significantly enhances our appreciation of both the medieval theory and practice of this complex activity.
–The Medieval Review
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Medical literature of the High Middle Ages reveals concern for children's health that derived from and reinforced anxieties over women's bodily fluids which were transformed from slightly hazardous nourishment into toxic liquids. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
medieval mothering, fetal nourishment, medieval queenship, imitatio mariae, medieval parents, spiritual infancy, medieval construction, medieval women, royal mother, romance reading, psychological investment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, New York, Clerk's Tale, God the Father, Empress Matilda, Virgin Mary, Julian of Norwich, Aelred of Rievaulx, Lady Rutland, Reading the Romance, Caroline Walker Bynum, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Old Norse, Ancrene Wisse, King Stephen, Eleanor of Castile, Lord Lisle, Middle English, Oldest Vocation, Bernard of Clairvaux, Crdnica Latina, King Henry, Lady Sussex, Selfand Society, William of Conches New!
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