1st Edition
Sanctity and Motherhood Essays on Holy Mothers in the Middle Ages
Edited By Anneke Mulder-Bakker
Copyright 1995
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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Increasingly, recent scholarship has focused on those married women and mothers in the Middle Ages who achieved holiness. The Merovingian Waldetrudis and Rictrudis; Ida, mother of the crusader king Godfrey of Bouillon; Elisabeth of Hungary and Bridget of Sweden are among them. Unlike Mary and her mother, Saint Anne (mother saints, whose sanctity was based on motherhood) these female parents were... Read more
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
Biography
Anneke Mulder-Bakker
"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
