Medieval Mothering (New Middle Ages)
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...
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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. 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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- ISBN10:0815323417
- ISBN13:9780815323419
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