Sanctity and Motherhood: Essays on Holy Mothers in the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9781138985636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 368 str.

Anneke Mulder-Bakker

Opis

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

"Anneke Mulder-Bakker and her fellow historians are to be thanked for shedding new and welcome light on the history of motherhood, sainthood, and the Christian church." -- Revue D'Histoire Eccelestique

Spis treści

I. IntroductionIntroduction, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker * Saint Anne: A Holy Grandmother and Her Children, Ton BrandenbargII. The Ancient World Transformed From Veleda to the Vslva: Aspects of Female Divination in Germanic Europe, Kees Samplonius * 'Consciousness Fecund through God': From Male Fighter to Spiritual Bride-Mother in Late Antique Female Sanctity, Giselle De NieIII. Holy Mothers in the Middle AgesFamily Ties: Mothers and Virgins in the Ninth Century, Ineke Van't Spijker * Godelieve of Gistel and Ida of Boulogne, Rene Nip * Ivetta of Huy: Mater at Magistra, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker * Sanctity and Motherhoold: Elizabeth of Thuringia, Anja Petrakopoulos * Motherhood and Sanctity in the Life of Sain Birgitta of Sweden: An Insoluble Conflict?, Jeannette Nieuwland * Sancta Mater Versus Sanctus Doctus * Saint Anne and the Humanists, Karin Tilmans * Epilogue, Clarissa W. Atkinson

O autorze

Anneke Mulder-Bakker