Sanctity and Motherhood Essays on Holy Mothers in the Middle Ages  -  Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

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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 honored despite rather than because of their children. They were holy mothers, whose status as spouses and mother...
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1995 Uitgever: Taylor & Francis 360 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0815314256 ISBN-13: 9780815314257