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Elizabeth L'Estrange is a Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Birmingham.
List of illustrations * List of figures * Preface and acknowledgements * Family trees of the houses of France, Anjou, Brittany and Burgundy * Introduction * Part I Gender, agency and the interpretation of material culture * The situational eye: viewing, gender and response in the later middle ages * De conceptione ad partum: saints, treatises and prayers for successful childbirth * The lying-in month and the rite of churching: post-partum rituals and the material culture of childbearing Part II Manuscript case studies from the houses of Anjou, Brittany and France * Holy mothers, sainted monarchs and beata stirps: the Fitzwilliam Hours and Books of Hours for the house of Anjou * Steriles fecundas fecisti: viewing and reading holy motherhood in the manuscripts of four duchesses of Brittany Conclusion * Appendix I: prayer and translation from the Hours of Marguerite of Foix * Appendix II: prayer and translation from the Prayer Book of Anne of Brittany * Bibliography * Index
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