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Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth L’Estrange is an FNRS Post-Doctoral Fellow in History of Art at the University of Liège in Belgium Klappentext Brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry. Focuses on miniatures of the birth of the Virgin and the mothers of the Holy Kinship in Books of Hours made for aristocratic women in relation to the dynastic importance of heirs and the material culture of childbearing. Zusammenfassung Brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry. Focuses on miniatures of the birth of the Virgin and the mothers of the Holy Kinship in Books of Hours made for aristocratic women in relation to the dynastic importance of heirs and the material culture of childbearing. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations List of figures Preface and acknowledgements Family trees of the houses of France, Anjou, Brittany and Burgundy Introduction Part I Gender, agency and the interpretation of material culture 1. The situational eye: viewing, gender and response in the later middle ages 2. De conceptione ad partum: saints, treatises and prayers for successful childbirth 3. The lying-in month and the rite of churching: post-partum rituals and the material culture of childbearing Part II Manuscript case studies from the houses of Anjou, Brittany and France 4. Holy mothers, sainted monarchs and beata stirps: the Fitzwilliam Hours and Books of Hours for the house of Anjou 5. Steriles fecundas fecisti: viewing and reading holy motherhood in the manuscripts of four duchesses of Brittany Conclusion Appendix I: prayer and translation from the Hours of Marguerite of Foix Appendix II: prayer and translation from the Prayer Book of Anne of Brittany Bibliography Index
