Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England

ISBN-13: 9780312227210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 161 str.

Mary Dockray-Miller; Mary Dockray-Miller

Opis

Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England sifts through the historical evidence to describe and analyze a world of violence and intrigue, where mothers needed to devise their own systems to protect, nurture, and teach their children. Mary Dockray-Miller casts a maternal eye on Bede, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Beowulf to reveal mothers who created rituals, genealogies, and institutions for their children and themselves. Little-known historical figures-queens, abbesses, and other noblewomen-used their power in court and convent to provide education, medical care, and safety for their children, showing us that mothers of a thousand years ago and mothers of today had many of the same goals and aspirations.

O autorze

Mary Dockray-Miller teaches English in the College of Advancing Studies at Boston College.