Children and everyday life in the Roman and late antique world
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Children and everyday life in the Roman and late antique world
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
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Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World explores what it meant to be a child in the Roman world - what were children's concerns, interests and beliefs - and whether we can find traces of children's own cultures. By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children lived, their experience of everyday life, and what the limits were for their agency. The volume brings together scholars of archaeology and material culture, classicists, ancient historians, theologians, and scholars of early Christianity and Judaism, all of whom have long been involved in the study of the social and cultural history of children.
The topics discussed include children's living environments; clothing; childhood care; social relations; leisure and play; health and disability; upbringing and schooling; and children's experiences of death. While the main focus of the volume is on Late Antiquity its coverage begins with the early Roman Empire, and extends to the early ninth century CE. The result is the first book-length scrutiny of the agency and experience of pre-modern children.
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1. A New Paradigm for the Social History of Childhood and Children in Antiquity
Christian Laes and Ville Vuolanto
2. Agency, Experience, and the Children in the Past. The Case of Roman Childhood
Ville Vuolanto
Setting the Scene: Experiences and Environments
3. Children and the Urban Environment: Agency in Pompeii
Ray Laurence
4. Little Tunics for Little People: the Problems of Visualising the Wardrobe of the Roman child
Mary Harlow
5. Touching Children in Roman Antiquity: the Sentimental Discourse and the Family Christian Laes
6. Being a Niece or Nephew in an Ancient City. Children's Social Environment in Roman Oxyrhynchos
April Pudsey and Ville Vuolanto
What Did the Roman Children Actually Do?
7. Leisure as a Site of Child Socialisation. Agency and Resistance in the Roman Empire
Jerry Toner
8. Roman Girls and Boys at Play: Realities and Representations
Fanny Dolansky
9. Age, Agency, and Material Culture in the Roman World: the Graffiti Evidence from Roman Campania
Katherine Huntley
10. Why Roman Pupils Lacked a Long Vacation
Konrad Voessing
11. Becoming a Roman Student
W. Martin Bloomer
Religious Practices and Sacred Spaces
12. Roman Children as Religious Agents: The Cognitive Foundations of Cult
Jakob Mackey
13. Jewish Childhood in the Roman Galilee. Sabbath in Tiberias (c. 300 CE)
Hagith Sivan
14. Resistance and Agency in the Everyday Life of Late Antique Children (3rd-8th c CE) Beatrice Caseau
15. Children in Monastic Families in Egypt at the End of Antiquity
Maria Chiara Giorda
16. Every-Day Life of Children in Ninth-Century Byzantine Monasteries
Oana Cojocaru
A Cruel World: Accidents, Disability and Death
17. Children's Accidents in the Roman Empire: The Medical Eye on 500 Years of Mishaps in Injured Children
Lutz Alexander Graumann
18. Listening for the Voices of Two Disabled Girls in Early Christian Literature Anna Rebecca Solevag
19. Children and the Experience of Death in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine World
Cornelia Horn
20. How Close Can We Get to the Roman Child? Reflections on Methodological Achievements and New Advances
Reidar Aasgaard
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