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"In Kids Those Days: Children in Medieval Culture, Lahney Preston-Matto and Mary Valante have organized a collection of interdisciplinary research into childhood throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors to the volume investigate childhood from Greece to the "Celtic-Fringe," looking at...
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Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Explorations in medieval culture,
volume 13 |
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| Summary: |
"In Kids Those Days: Children in Medieval Culture, Lahney Preston-Matto and Mary Valante have organized a collection of interdisciplinary research into childhood throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors to the volume investigate childhood from Greece to the "Celtic-Fringe," looking at how children lived, suffered, thrived, or died young. Scholars from myriad disciplines, from art and archaeology to history and literature, offer essays on abandonment and abuse, fosterage and guardianship, criminal behavior and child-rearing, child bishops and sainthood, disabilities and miracles, and a wide variety of other subjects related to medieval children. The volume focuses especially on children in the realms of religion, law, and vulnerabilities"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 362 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-348) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004315174 9004315179 |
| Index Number: | HQ792 |
| CLC: | D754.585-09 |
| Call Number: | D754.585-09/K469 |
| Contents: |
Out from a Shadow / The Disrobing Child in the Entry into Jerusalem Scene : An Element of Realism or Symbolism in Byzantine Art? / Boy Becoming Man : Liturgical Inversion in the Boy Bishop Ceremony in Medieval England / Apocryphal Youth : The Childhood of the Irish Saint / Minors and the Miraculous : The Cure-Seeking Experiences of Children in Twelfth-Century English Hagiography / The Infirm Child between Parental Worry and Divine Powers / "I Would Like to Make It Up to You by Fostering Your Son" : Fosterage and Fixing Relations in Medieval Iceland / Childhood in the Common Law Courts of Medieval Ireland / Puerile Justice : The Voice of a Boy Jack and His Stepdame / Foreign Guardianship and the Networked Child in Medieval English Romance / The Loss of Innocence : Childhood and Transition to Adulthood in the Mortuary Practices of the Early Viking Age / It Takes a Village : Community Responses to Child Death in High and Late Medieval England / Havelok's Sisters : Vulnerability and the Child Body / Patriarchy, Violence and Sacrifice in the Middle English Slaughter of the Innocents Plays / Abandoned, Overworked, Abused : The Dark Side of Childhoods in Early Medieval Ireland / |