ISBN:
9004170731
,
9789004170735
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 308 p)
,
ill
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
The Northern world v. 42
Parallel Title:
Print version Youth and Age in the Medieval North
DDC:
305.2350948
Keywords:
Older people History
;
Youth History
;
Europe, Northern Social life and customs
;
Konferenzschrift 2005
;
Konferenzschrift 2005
;
History
Abstract:
Following from themes explored during the 2005 International Medieval Congress on 'Youth and Age', this volume focuses upon social, cultural and biological aspects of being young and old in the medieval north. It showcases the diverse issues that surround interdisciplinary studies of youth and age
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents ; Notes on Contributors; 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 Signifi cance in Gísla saga (Anna Hansen); The Birth, Childhood and Adolescence of the Early Icelandic Bishops (Bernadine McCreesh)
Description / Table of Contents:
'Sveinn einn ungr fell í syruker': 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)
Description / Table of Contents:
Becoming 'Old', Ageism and Taking Care of the Elderly in Iceland c. 900-1300 (Jón Viôar Sigurôsson)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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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