Umfang:
1 online resource (376 pages)
ISBN:
9789004458260
Serie:
Explorations in Medieval Culture Ser.
Inhalt:
Kids Those Days is a collection of interdisciplinary research into medieval childhood. Contributors investigate 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.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Out from a Shadow -- Part 1 Children in Medieval Religion -- Chapter 1 The Disrobing Child in the Entry into Jerusalem Scene An Element of Realism or Symbolism in Byzantine Art? -- Chapter 2 Boy Becoming Man Liturgical Inversion in the Boy Bishop Ceremony in Medieval England -- Chapter 3 Apocryphal Youth The Childhood of the Irish Saint -- Chapter 4 Minors and the Miraculous The Cure-Seeking Experiences of Children in Twelfth-Century English Hagiography -- Chapter 5 The Infirm Child between Parental Worry and Divine Powers -- Part 2 Children in Medieval Law and Justice -- Chapter 6 "I Would Like to Make It Up to You by Fostering Your Son" Fosterage and Fixing Relations in Medieval Iceland -- Chapter 7 Childhood in the Common Law Courts of Medieval Ireland -- Chapter 8 Puerile Justice The Voice of a Boy in Jack and His Stepdame -- Chapter 9 Foreign Guardianship and the Networked Child in Medieval English Romance -- Part 3 Vulnerable Children -- Chapter 10 The Loss of Innocence Childhood and Transition to Adulthood in the Mortuary Practices of the Early Viking Age -- Chapter 11 It Takes a Village Community Responses to Child Death in High and Late Medieval England -- Chapter 12 Havelok's Sisters Vulnerability and the Child Body -- Chapter 13 Patriarchy, Violence and Sacrifice in the Middle English Slaughter of the Innocents Plays -- Chapter 14 Abandoned, Overworked, Abused The Dark Side of Childhoods in Early Medieval Ireland -- Bibliography -- Suggested Additional Reading -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789004315174
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004315174
Sprache:
Englisch
