Bibliograph

Medieval mothering, edited by John Carmi Parsons, Bonnie Wheeler

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Medieval mothering, edited by John Carmi Parsons, Bonnie Wheeler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Medieval mothering

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

edited by John Carmi Parsons, Bonnie Wheeler

Series statement

The new Middle Ages, volume 3

Summary

First published in 1996, this study offers a broad 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., 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

Target audience

specialized

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