Contributor
Leyser, Henrietta.
Imprint:Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
Descriptionxv, 369 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:1. Augustine and Monnica / Kate Cooper -- 2. From Maternal Kin to Jesus as Mother: Royal Genealogy and Marian Devotion in the Ninth-century West / Conrad Leyser -- 3. Dhuoda on Dreams / Janet L. Nelson -- 4. Motherhood and Power in Early Medieval Europe, West and East: The Strange Case of the Empress Eirene / Mark Whittow -- 5. In Search of the Good Mother: Twelfth-century Celibacy and Affectivity / Brian Patrick McGuire -- 6. Twelfth-century English Mothers / Henry Mayr-Harting -- 7. Did Mothers Teach their Children to Read? / Michael Clanchy -- 8. Who is my Mother? Honouring Parents in Medieval Exegesis of the Ten Commandments / Lesley Smith -- 9. Making Motherhood in Medieval England: The Evidence from Medicine / Monica H. Green -- 10. Obstacles to Motherhood / Tony Hunt -- 11. A Mother's Past and her Children's Futures: Female Inheritance, Family and Dynastic Hospitals in the Thirteenth Century / Sethina Watson -- 12. Becoming the Theotokos: Birgitta of Sweden and Fulfilment of Salvation History / Samuel Fanous -- 13. Mothers and Orphans in Fourteenth-century London / Claire A. Martin -- 14. Mother or Stepmother to History? Joan de Mohun and her Chronicle / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne.
Bibliography Note:"Henrietta Leyser: principal publications"--p. [365]-366.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-363) and index.
