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The oldest vocation: Christian motherhood in the Middle Ages

Atkinson, Clarissa W.

Year: 1991.

Publisher: Cornell University Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface

Abbreviations

I. Christian Motherhood: "Who Is My Mother?"

2. Physiological Motherhood: The Wandering Womb

3. Spiritual Motherhood: Extraordinary Women in the Early Middle Ages

4. Theological Motherhood: The Virgin Mother of God

5. "Mother of Love, Mother of Tears": Holiness and Families in the Later Middle Ages

6. Motherhood Reformed: The Parson's Wife and Her Children

7. The Construction of Motherhood

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Index

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Title:

The oldest vocation : Christian motherhood in the Middle Ages Clarissa W. Atkinson.

Author:

Atkinson, Clarissa W

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The oldest vocation : Christian motherhood in the Middle Ages Clarissa W. Atkinson.
Atkinson, Clarissa W
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04150

Subject Headings:

• Mothers -- Europe -- History
• Motherhood -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
• Mothers -- Religious life -- Europe -- History
• Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492

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