| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Motherhood in antiquity/ edited by Dana Cooper, Claire Phelan. |
| other author: |
Cooper, Dana. |
| Published: |
Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017., |
| Description: |
xiv, 267 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
1. Introduction -- I. Motherhood and Religion -- 2. 'I Arose a Mother in Israel:' Motherhood as a Liberating Power in the Biblical Stories of Miriam and Deborah -- 3. Models of Devotion?: The Rhetoric of Ambivalence and Admonition in Late Antique and Early Christian Discourse on Women and Motherhood -- 4. Motherhood in the Ancient Indian Buddhist World: A Soteriological Path -- II. Motherhood and Politics -- 5. Mother knows Best: Motherhood and Succession in the Seleucid Realm -- 6. Mamaea's Little Man: Alexander Severus, His Mother, and the Germanic War -- 7. Jingû: Narratives of Motherhood and Imperial Rule in Early Japan -- III. Motherhood and Identity -- 8. Earthly and Divine Mothers in Ancient Egypt -- 9. Bronze Age Beginnings: The Conceptualization of Motherhood in Prehistoric Europe -- 10. From Cybele to Artemis: Motherhood and Great Mothers of Ancient Anatolia -- 11. Motherhood, Personhood, Identity, and Place-making in Ancient Mesoamerica. |
| Contained By: |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject: |
Motherhood - History - To 1500. - |
| Online resource: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48902-5 |
| ISBN: |
9783319489025 |