ISBN:
9789004461062
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Series Statement:
East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 Ser.
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Keywords:
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Abstract:
This book shows that childhood was an essential element in the arguments and purposes of authors in medieval Poland from 1050-1300 CE. This role of childhood in medieval mindsets has salient parallels throughout Europe and this is also explored in this volume.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Historiographical Context -- 2 Description of Contents -- Chapter 2 Child and Hero: The Use of Childhood in the Narrative of Gallus Anonymus -- 1 Who Was Gallus? New Approaches to the Deeds of the Princes of the Poles -- 2 Childhood as a Time of Development and Prophecy -- 3 Age Terminology and Dynastic Status: When Is a Man a Man? -- 4 Vulnerability and Care: From Parents and the Community -- 5 Motherly Care and Female Children -- 6 Comparisons: Cosmas of Prague -- 7 Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Vincent Kadłubek and Thinking with Children -- 1 Vincent's Overlap with Gallus -- 2 Parental Love of Children … and the Virtue of Violating It -- 3 Filial and Familial Piety -- 4 Childishness, a Negative Stereotype Applied to Rulers -- 5 Prophecy and Children -- 6 Child(hood) as a Rhetorical Device -- 7 Conclusions -- Chapter 4 The Henryków Book: The Weight of Future Children and the Threat of Youth -- 1 The Text and Its Purpose -- 2 Youth as Part of Dynasty and Potential Threat -- 3 How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down: What Is a Responsible Age? -- 4 "Kids These Days": Disappointment in the Next Generation -- 5 Memory and Youth, a New Kind of Remembrance in Poland -- 6 The Care for Children -- 7 Conclusions -- Chapter 5 Children and Childhood in Hagiography -- 1 Are Good Children Serious Children? -- 2 Education Issues: Nature vs. Nurture, God as Teacher, Male vs. Female -- 3 Precious or Burdensome? Children Three Years and Younger -- 4 Children, Childhood, and Descendants in the Canonization Story of St. Stanisław -- 5 The Miracles -- 6 Latin Words Relating to Children in the Miracula: Exceptions and Rules -- 7 Conclusions -- Chapter 6 The Child in the Community of the Dead -- 1 Incidence of Child Burials -- 2 The Problem of Grave Goods in Child Burials.
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