Motherhood remains 'the oldest vocation', and perhaps for that reason one of the least studied or understood. To move the discussion forward, this volume spans the full length and breadth of the Middle Ages, from late Roman North Africa through ninth-century Byzantium to late me…
Motherhood remains 'the oldest vocation', and perhaps for that reason one of the least studied or understood. To move the discussion forward, this volume spans the full length and breadth of the Middle Ages, from late Roman North Africa through ninth-century Byzantium to late me…
"Starting with the premise that the history of a medieval subject cannot be properly written 'without recourse to the materials it produced, ' Lesley Smith's Masters of the Sacred Page provides an illuminating study of theology in the Middle Ages. She focuses on the dramatic tra…