Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400
Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser
Who can concentrate on thoughts of Scripture or philosophy and be able to endure babies crying ... ? Will he put up with the constant muddle and squalor which small children bring into the home? The wealthy can do so ... but philosophers lead a very different life ... So, according to Peter Abelard, did his wife Heloise state in characteristically stark terms the antithetical demands of family and scholarship. Heloise was not alone in making this assumption. Sources from Jerome onward never cease to remind us that the life of the mind stands at odds with life in the family. For all that we have moved in the past two generations beyond king…
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Weitere Autoren: Leyser, Conrad (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-09397-8
- EAN: 9781317093978
- Produktnummer: 24379241
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'135 KB
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