Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Christian Motherhood: "Who Is My Mother?" -- 2. Physiological Motherhood: The Wandering Womb -- 3. Spiritual Motherhood: Extraordinary Women in the Early Middle Ages -- 4. Theological Motherhood: The Virgin Mother of God -- 5. "Mother of Love, Mother of Tears": Holiness and Families in the Later Middle Ages -- 6. Motherhood Reformed: The Parson's Wife and Her Children -- 7. The Construction of Motherhood -- Works Cited -- Index
