ISBN:
9789047424048
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
The Northern world v. 42
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2008
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.2350948
Keywords:
Older people History
;
Youth History
;
Europe, Northern Social life and customs
;
Konferenzschrift 2005
Abstract:
Preliminary material /S.M. Lewis-Simpson -- The challenges of quantifying youth and age in the medieval north /Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- Forever young: Child burial in anglo-saxon England /Christina Lee -- Constructions of early childhood at the syncretic cemetery of Fjälkinge—A case study /Lotta Mejsholm -- Child burials and children’s status in medieval Norway /Berit J. Sellevold -- Fosterage and dependency in medieval Iceland and its significance in Gísla Saga /Anna Hansen -- The birth, childhood and adolescence of the early icelandic bishops /Bernadine Mccreesh -- ‘Sveinn Einn Ungr Fell Í Sýruker’: Medieval icelandic children in vernacular miracle stories /Joanna A. Skórzewska -- Teenage angst: The structures and boundaries of adolescence in twelfth-and thirteenth-century Iceland /Nic Percivall -- Awkward adolescents: Male maturation in norse literature /Carolyne Larrington -- ‘Spoiling them rotten?’: Grandmothers and familial identity in twelfth-and thirteenth-century Iceland /Philadelphia Ricketts -- Age matters in old english literature /Jordi Sánchez-Martí -- Becoming ‘old’, ageism and taking care of the elderly in Iceland c.900–1300 /Jón Viðar Sigurðsson -- Old age in viking-age Britain /Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- The Patriarch: Myth and reality /Ármann Jakobsson -- Egill Skalla-Grímsson: A viking poet as a child and an old man /Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir Yershova -- Index /S.M. Lewis-Simpson -- The northern world /S.M. Lewis-Simpson.
Abstract:
Following from themes explored during the 2005 International Medieval Congress on ‘Youth and Age’, this interdisciplinary volume focuses upon social, cultural and biological aspects of being young and old in the medieval north. The contributors progress definitions of young and old in the north, taking into account changing mentalities as a result of political and cultural transformations such as the Christianisation of the north. This book invites discourse on youth and age amongst medieval archaeologists, historians, and philologists, while introducing particularities of medieval research to sociologists and gerontologists working within other periods and areas. The contributors, representing both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field, showcase the diverse issues that surround interdisciplinary studies of youth and age. Contributors are Christina Lee, Lotta Mejsholm, Berit J. Sellevold, Anna Hansen, Bernadine McCreesh, Joanna A. Skórzewska, Nic Percivall, Carolyne Larrington, Philadelphia Ricketts, Jordi Sánchez-Martí, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Shannon Lewis-Simpson, Ármann Jakobsson, and Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir Yershova
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/ej.9789004170735.i-310
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