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Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400 - Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser (Paperback)
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Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400 - Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser (Paperback)
Series: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
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Who can concentrate on thoughts of Scripture or philosophy and be
able to endure babies crying ... ? Will he put up with the constant
muddle and squalor which small children bring into the home? The
wealthy can do so ... but philosophers lead a very different life
... So, according to Peter Abelard, did his wife Heloise state in
characteristically stark terms the antithetical demands of family
and scholarship. Heloise was not alone in making this assumption.
Sources from Jerome onward never cease to remind us that the life
of the mind stands at odds with life in the family. For all that we
have moved in the past two generations beyond kings and battles,
fiefs and barons, motherhood has remained a blind spot for medieval
historians. Whatever the reasons, the result is that the
historiography of the medieval period is largely motherless. The
aim of this book is to insist that this picture is intolerably
one-dimensional, and to begin to change it. The volume is focussed
on the paradox of motherhood in the European Middle Ages: to be a
mother is at once to hold great power, and by the same token to be
acutely vulnerable. The essays look to analyse the powers and the
dangers of motherhood within the warp and weft of social history,
beginning with the premise that religious discourse or practice
served as a medium in which mothers (and others) could assess their
situation, defend claims, and make accusations. Within this frame,
three main themes emerge: survival, agency, and
institutionalization. The volume spans the length and breadth of
the Middle Ages, from late Roman North Africa through ninth-century
Byzantium to late medieval Somerset, drawing in a range of types of
historian, including textual scholars, literary critics, students
of religion and economic historians. The unity of the volume arises
from the very diversity of approaches within it, all addressed to
the central topic.
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