Kids Those Days: Children in Medieval Culture

Author:   Lahney Preston-Matto ,  Mary A. Valante
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   13
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9789004315174


Pages:   362
Publication Date:   28 October 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Lahney Preston-Matto ,  Mary A. Valante
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   13
Weight:   0.752kg
ISBN:  

9789004315174


ISBN 10:   9004315179
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   28 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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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 Maire 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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Lahney Preston-Matto, Ph.D. (2000), New York University, is Professor of Medieval Literature at Adelphi University. She has written numerous articles on medieval fosterage in northern Europe. She is the author of Aislinge meic Conglinne/ The Vision of Mac Conglinne (Syracuse University Press, 2010). Mary A. Valante, Ph.D. (1998), The Pennsylvania State University, is Professor of Medieval History at Appalachian State University. She has published articles on early medieval and Viking-Age Ireland, and is the author of The Vikings in Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2008).

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