Saint Anne : a holy grandmother and her children / Ton Brandenbarg -- From Veleda to the Völva : aspects of female divination in Germanic Europe / Kees Samplonius -- "Consciousness fecund through God " : from male fighter to spiritual bride-mother in late antique female sanctity / Giselle de Nie -- Family ties : mothers and virgins in the ninth century / Imeke van't Spijker -- Godelieve of Gistel and Ida of Boulogne / Renée Nip -- Ivetta of Huy : mater et magistra / Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker -- Sanctity and motherhood : Elizabeth of Thuringia / Anja Petrakopoulos -- Motherhood and sanctity in the life of Saint Birgitta of Sweden : an insoluble conflict? / Jeannette Nieuwland -- Sancta mater versus sanctus doctus? Saint Anne and the humanists / Karin Tilmans
