Youth and age in the medieval north / edited by Shannon Lewis-Simpson.

• Superior document: The Northern world, v. 42
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Lewis-Simpson, Shannon.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Northern world ; v. 42.
• Physical Description: ix, 308 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

The challenges of quantifying youth and age in the medieval North / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- Forever young : child burial in Anglo-Saxon England / Christina Lee -- Constructions of early childhood at the syncretic cemetery of Fj{uml}alkinge : a case study / Lotta Mejsholm -- Child burials and children's status in medieval Norway / Berit J. Sellevold -- Fosterage and dependency in medieval Iceland and its significance in G{acute}isla Saga / Anna Hansen -- The birth, childhood and adolescence of the early Icelandic bishops / Bernadine McCreesh -- 'Sveinn einn ungr fell i syruker' : medieval Icelandic children in vernacular miracle stories / Joanna A. Sk{acute}orzewska -- Teenage angst : the structures and boundaries of adolescence in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Nic Percivall -- Awkward adolescents : male maturation in old Norse literature / Carolyne Larrington -- 'Spoiling them rotten?' : grandmothers and familial identity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Philadelphia Ricketts -- Age matters in Old English literature / Jordi S{acute}anchez-Mart{acute}i -- Becoming 'old', ageism and taking care of the elderly in Iceland c. 900-1300 / Jon Viar Sigursson -- Old age in Viking-age Britain / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- The patriarch : myth and reality / Armann Jakobsson -- Egill Skalla-Gr{acute}imsson : a Viking poet as a child and an old man / Yelena Sesselja Helgad{acute}ottir Yershova.