TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atkinson,Clarissa W.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Oldest Vocation : : Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West / 
SN  - 9781501740909
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - nli
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Moederschap
KW  - gtt
KW  - Social history
KW  - Medieval
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Histoire sociale
KW  - 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
KW  - Meres
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - Maternite
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - history
KW  - Medieval, 500-1500
KW  - To 1492
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Jusqu'à 1492
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - "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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68525/
ER  -