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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsList 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
