Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “I Arose a Mother in Israel”: Motherhood as a Liberating Power in the Biblical Stories of Miriam and Deborah

Chapter 3 Models of Devotion?: The Rhetoric of Ambivalence and Admonition in Late Antique and Early Christian Discourse on Women and Motherhood

Chapter 4 Motherhood in the Ancient Indian Buddhist World: A Soteriological Path

Chapter 5 Mother Knows Best: Motherhood and Succession in the Seleucid Realm

Chapter 6 Mamaea’s Little Man: Alexander Severus, His Mother, and the Germanic War

Chapter 7 Jingû: Narratives of Motherhood and Imperial Rule in Early Japan

Chapter 8 Earthly and Divine Mothers in Ancient Egypt

Chapter 9 Bronze Age Beginnings: The Conceptualization of Motherhood in Prehistoric Europe

Chapter 11 Motherhood, Personhood, Identity, and Place-Making in Ancient Mesoamerica