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According to an old story, a woman concealed her sex and ruled as pope for a few years in the ninth century, but her downfall came when she went into labor in the streets of Rome. From this myth 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.
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Paperbound reprint of a 1991 study tracing the roots of medieval ideologies of motherhood in early Christianity, reconstructing the physiological assumptions underlying medieval notions about women's bodies and reproduction, and exploring the concept of spiritual motherhood, the cult of the Virgin M
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- PublisherCornell University Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0801420717
- ISBN 13 9780801420719
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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