Research Catalog
The oldest vocation : Christian motherhood in the Middle Ages
- Title
- The oldest vocation : Christian motherhood in the Middle Ages / Clarissa W. Atkinson.
- Author
- Atkinson, Clarissa W.
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©1991.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HQ759 .A84 1991 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 274 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "After tracing the roots of medieval ideologies of motherhood in early Christianity, the author reconstructs the physiological assumptions underlying medieval notions about women's bodies and reproduction. She then describes the development of "spiritual motherhood" both as a concept emerging out of monastic ideologies in the early Middle Ages and as a reality in the lives of certain remarkable women" -- Book jacket.
- Subject
- To 1500
- Mothers > Europe > History
- Motherhood > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Mothers > Religious life > History. > Europe
- Social history > Medieval, 500-1500
- Mothers > Religious life > Europe
- Mothers > history
- Christianity > history
- Motherhood > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Mothers
- Mothers > Religious life
- Social conditions
- Social history > Medieval
- Moederschap
- Mothers
- Motherhood
- Europe > Social conditions > To 1492
- Europe
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "First printing, Cornell paperbacks, 1994. Second paperback printing 2019"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-262) and index.
- Contents
- Christian motherhood: "Who is my mother"? -- Physiological motherhood: The wandering womb -- Spiritual motherhood: Extraordinary women in the early Middle Ages -- Theological motherhood: The Virgin Mother of God -- "Mother of love, mother of tears": Holiness and families in the later Middle Ages -- Motherhood reformed: The parson's wife and her children -- The construction of motherhood.
- ISBN
- 0801420717
- 9780801420719
- 0801482046
- 9780801482045
- 9781501740886
- 1501740881
- 0801120717 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501740909 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 91016078
- OCLC
- ocm23769600
- 23769600
- SCSB-1955599
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library