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Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400

Leyser co-edited this volume with Lesley Smith. They planned the volume together, assembled the contributors, and edited their contributions. As the preface, which they co-wrote, explains, their goal was to bring together as diverse a range as possible of papers on this theme, which has received remarkably little sustained attention. Chronological range was a particular consideration, as the not very extensive literature on medieval motherhood tends to concentrate on either the early or the high Middle Ages. The volume spans the full period; Leyser's contribution - ‘Maternal Kin' - relates to the ninth century, his co-editor’s to the twelfth.