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

Smith co-edited this volume with Conrad Leyser. They planned the volume together, assembled the contributors, edited their contributions, and co-wrote the preface. Their goal was to bring together a diverse range 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; Smith’s contribution - ‘Who is my mother? Honouring parents in medieval exegesis of the Ten Commandments’ - relates to the twelfth century.