Kids Those Days: Children in Medieval Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-31517-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 752 g

Reihe: Explorations in Medieval Culture

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, 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.

Contributors are Paul A. Broyles, Sarah Croix, Gavin Fort, Sophia Germanidou, Danielle Griego, Máire Johnson, Daniel T. Kline, Jenni Kuuliala, Lahney Preston-Matto, Melissa Raine, Eve Salisbury, Ruth Salter, Bridgette Slavin, and Mary A. Valante.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Preston-Matto, Lahney

Valante, Mary A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).