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Chargement... The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Agespar Clarissa W. Atkinson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Christian motherhood in Middle Ages This is a very interesting and eminently readable book which, despite its title, stretches both back to the Classical world and forward into the period immediately after the Reformation in its consideration of how motherhood has been thought of in a Christian context. Atkinson argues that motherhood is a historical construction, one which is profoundly shaped by the social, economic and political contexts and the prevailing gender ideologies of each era. The earliest Christian women, for example, took pride in rejecting maternal ties when offered the opportunity for martyrdom; the High Middle Ages are marked by their devout Mariolatry and focus on affective, tender piety at the same time as virginity was prized even above chaste marriage; by the early modern period, the only good and irreproachable Christian woman was a mother. The majority of Atkinson's sources are, of course, written by men, and given the nature of the sources she must focus more on the ideology of motherhood than on the practical, daily lived experiences of medieval mothers. She does however provide many case studies of individual women, and her analysis of the texts is clear. Some of her conclusions about women's/gender roles in the very early church may be quibbled with slightly (perhaps in light of later research? this book was published in 1991), but this is regardless a very useful work. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
According to an old story, a woman concealed her sex and ruled as pope for a few years in the ninth century. Pope Joan was not betrayed by a lover or discovered by an enemy; her downfall came when she went into labor during a papal procession through the streets of Rome. From the myth of Joan to the experiences of saints, nuns, and ordinary women, The Oldest Vocation brings to life both the richness and the troubling contradictions of Christian motherhood in medieval Europe.After tracing the roots of medieval ideologies of motherhood in early Christianity, Clarissa W. Atkinson reconstructs the physiological assumptions underlying medieval notions about women's bodies and reproduction; inherited from Greek science and popularized through the practice of midwifery, these assumptions helped shape common beliefs about what mothers were. 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. Atkinson explores the theological dimensions of medieval motherhood by discussing the cult of the Virgin Mary in twelfth-century art, story, and religious expression. She also offers a fascinating new perspective on the women saints of the later Middle Ages, many of whom were mothers; their lives and cults forged new relationships between maternity and holiness. The Oldest Vocation concludes where most histories of motherhood begin-in early modern Europe, when the family was institutionalized as a center of religious and social organization.Anyone interested in the status of motherhood, or in women's history, the cultural history of the Middle Ages, or the history of religion will want to read this book. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)261.8358743094Religions Christian church and church work Church and the world; Social theology and interreligious relations and attitudes Christianity and socioeconomic problems Social Teaching With Respect to Culture and Institutions Marriage & Parenting Parenting Experiences of Family Caregivers MotherhoodClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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