Motherhood in Antiquity (eBook)

Dana Cooper, Claire Phelan (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XIV, 267 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-48902-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited collection examines concepts and realities of motherhood in the ancient world. The collection uses essays on the Roman Empire, Mesoamerica, the Philippines, Egypt, and India to emphasize the concept of motherhood as a worldwide phenomenon and experience. While covering a wide geographical range, the editors arranged the collection thematically to explore themes including the relationship between the mother, particularly ruling mothers, and children and the mother in real life and legend. Some essays explore related issues, such as adaptation and child custody after divorce in ancient Egypt and the mother in religious culture of late antiquity and the ancient Buddhist Indian world. The contributors utilize a variety of methodologies and approaches including textual analysis and archaeological analysis in addition to traditional historical methodology.

Dana Cooper is Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University, USA. 

Claire Phelan, Ph.D, is an independent scholar who regularly teaches courses on women's history and presents on issues relating to gender at professional conferences. 

Autor

Dana Cooper is Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University, USA. Claire Phelan is an Associate Professor at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, USA. She regularly teaches courses on women's history and presents on issues relating to gender at professional conferences.

Inhalt

1. IntroductionI. Motherhood and Religion2. ‘I Arose a Mother in Israel:’ Motherhood as a Liberating Power in the Biblical Stories of Miriam and Deborah3. Models of Devotion?: The Rhetoric of Ambivalence and Admonition in Late Antique and Early Christian Discourse on Women and Motherhood4. Motherhood in the Ancient Indian Buddhist World: A Soteriological PathII. Motherhood and Politics5. Mother knows Best: Motherhood and Succession in the Seleucid Realm6. Mamaea’s Little Man: Alexander Severus, His Mother, and the Germanic War7. Jingû: Narratives of Motherhood and Imperial Rule in Early JapanIII. Motherhood and Identity8. Earthly and Divine Mothers in Ancient Egypt9. Bronze Age Beginnings: The Conceptualization of Motherhood in Prehistoric Europe10. From Cybele to Artemis: Motherhood and Great Mothers of Ancient Anatolia 11. Motherhood, Personhood, Identity, and Place-making in Ancient Mesoamerica

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 267 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Bronze Age • Byzantium • Egypt • Greece • motherhood in war • Religion and Gender • Rome
• ISBN-10: 3-319-48902-X / 331948902X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-48902-5 / 9783319489025