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Kids those days : : children in medieval culture / / edited by Lahney Preston-Matto, Mary A. Valante.

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In Kids Those Days , 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, thri...

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Superior document:Explorations in medieval culture ; Volume 13
TeilnehmendeR:
Valante, Mary A.,
Preston-Matto, Lahney,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Explorations in medieval culture ; Volume 13.
Physical Description:1 online resource (376 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Out from a Shadow
  • Lahney Preston-Matto and Mary A. Valante
  • part 1: Children in Medieval Religion
  • 1 The Disrobing Child in the Entry into Jerusalem Scene: An Element of Realism or Symbolism in Byzantine Art?
  • Sophia Germanidou
  • 2 Boy Becoming Man
  • Liturgical Inversion in the Boy Bishop Ceremony in Medieval England
  • Gavin Fort
  • 3 Apocryphal Youth
  • The Childhood of the Irish Saint
  • Máire Johnson
  • 4 Minors and the Miraculous
  • The Cure-Seeking Experiences of Children in Twelfth-Century English Hagiography
  • Ruth J. Salter
  • 5 The Infirm Child between Parental Worry and Divine Powers
  • Jenni Kuuliala
  • part 2: Children in Medieval Law and Justice
  • 6 "I Would Like to Make It Up to You by Fostering Your Son"
  • Fosterage and Fixing Relations in Medieval Iceland
  • Lahney Preston-Matto
  • 7 Childhood in the Common Law Courts of Medieval Ireland
  • Bridgette Slavin
  • 8 Puerile Justice
  • The Voice of a Boy in Jack and His Stepdame
  • Melissa Elizabeth Raine
  • 9 Foreign Guardianship and the Networked Child in Medieval English Romance
  • Paul Broyles
  • part 3: Vulnerable Children
  • 10 The Loss of Innocence
  • Childhood and Transition to Adulthood in the Mortuary Practices of the Early Viking Age
  • Sarah Croix
  • 11 It Takes a Village
  • Community Responses to Child Death in High and Late Medieval England
  • Danielle Griego
  • 12 Havelok's Sisters
  • Vulnerability and the Child Body
  • Eve Salisbury
  • 13 Patriarchy, Violence and Sacrifice in the Middle English Slaughter of the Innocents Plays
  • Daniel T. Kline
  • 14 Abandoned, Overworked, Abused
  • The Dark Side of Childhoods in Early Medieval Ireland
  • Mary A. Valante
  • Bibliography
  • Suggested Additional Reading
  • Index.

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