{"product_id":"kids-those-days-children-in-medieval-culture-9789004315174","title":"Kids Those Days: Children in Medieval Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210684653911,"sku":"9789004315174","price":128.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kids-those-days-children-in-medieval-culture-9789004315174","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}