Description
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, Maire Johnson, Daniel T. Kline, Jenni Kuuliala, Lahney Preston-Matto, Melissa Raine, Eve Salisbury, Ruth Salter, Bridgette Slavin, and Mary A. Valante.
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
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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