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Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages

Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages

Paperback

Series: Manchester Medieval Studies, Book 11

General ArtGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0719087260
ISBN13: 9780719087264
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: May 30 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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.

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