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MOTHERHOOD AND MOTHERING IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND Mary Dockray-Miller MOTHERHOOD AND MOTHERING IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND THE NEW MIDDLE AGES BONNIE WHEELER Series Editor The New Middle Ages presents transdisciplinary studies of medieval cultures. It includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. PUBLISHED BY ST.MARTIN’S PRESS: Women in the Medieval Islamic World:Power,Patronage,and Piety edited by Gavin R.G.Hambly The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages:On Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics by Gregory B.Stone Presence and Presentation:Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition by Sherry J.Mou The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France by Constant J.Mews Understanding Scholastic Thought with Foucault by Philipp W.Rosemann For Her Good Estate:The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh by Frances Underhill Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages edited by Cindy L.Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl Listening to Heloise:TheVoice of a Twelfth-Century Woman edited by Bonnie Wheeler Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England by Mary Dockray-Miller MOTHERHOOD AND MOTHERING IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND Mary Dockray-Miller MOTHERHOODANDMOTHERINGINANGLO-SAXONENGLAND Copyright © Mary Dockray-Miller,2000.All rights reserved.Printed in the United States of America.No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.For information,address St. Martin’s Press,175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010. ISBN 0-312-22721-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dockray-Miller,Mary,1965- Motherhood and mothering in Anglo-Saxon England / Mary Dockray -Miller. p. cm.(The New Middle Ages) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-312-22721-3 1. Mothers—England—History—To 1500. 2. Motherhood—England- -History—To 1500. 3. Great Britain—History—Anglo-Saxon period, 449–1066. 4. Mothers in literature. 5. Motherhood in literature. 6. English literature—Old English,ca.450–1100—History and criticism. I. Title. HQ759.D63 1999 306.874’3’09420902—dc21 99–39680 CIP Design by Letra Libre,Inc. First edition:March 2000 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For the Hawk, Edith Weatherby Dockray This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Series Editor’s Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Preface: Looking for Anglo-Saxon Mothers xiii 1. Maternal Performers 1 2. Matrilineal Genealogy and Mildrib’s Maternal Legacy 9 3. The Maternal Genealogy of Æbelflæd, Lady of the Mercians 43 4. The Mothers of Beowulf 77 Afterword: The Politics of Motherhood 117 Appendix: Family Trees 121 Notes 125 Bibliography 149 Index 159 This page intentionally left blank SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD The New Middle Agescontributes to medieval cultural studies through its scholarly monographs and essay collections.This series speaks in a con- temporary idiom about specific but diverse practices,expressions,and ide- ologies in the Middle Ages;it aims especially to recuperate the histories of medieval women.Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon Englandby Mary Dockray-Miller is the thirteenth book in the series.This,the first mono- graph on maternity in Anglo-Saxon England,uses a large range of diverse evidence culled from saints’lives,chronicles,and charters to demonstrate modes of medieval maternal nurturance. Not surprisingly, given its grandeur and interpretive importance,Dockray-Miller uses Beowulf as her central text.Grendel’s mother,then and now,models ways in which mater- nity can be both powerful and thwarted. Bonnie Wheeler Southern Methodist University
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