Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England
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1999
Sutton Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-1918-0 (ISBN)
Sutton Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-1918-0 (ISBN)
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The author draws on a wide range of sources to illustrate all aspects of a child's life in Anglo-Saxon England. Diet, disease, family structure, legal and burial rights and the representation of children in literature are all examined to establish attitudes to children and reconstruct the shape of the family and the place of the child within it.
Never has the term "Dark Ages" been more relevant than to the study of the early medieval child. Although there is now detailed information on Roman and late medieval families, childhood in the Anglo-Saxon child is presented in this study of the archaeological evidence such as excavated cemeteries and settlement sites, as well as the more limited documentary sources. The book opens with a brief introduction to the study of childhood and family structure, and an examination of the available evidence. This is followed by a discussion of the age at which an Anglo-Saxon child was thought to have become an adult, and whether there were any rites of passage in the child's progression to adult status. The bulk of the study then follows the child's life right through from infancy to adolescence. Special attention is given to health and childcare, the position of the child within the family, and play and education. In an age when few children grew up with both parents still alive, a chapter is also devoted to the role of fosterage, godparents and adoption.
Never has the term "Dark Ages" been more relevant than to the study of the early medieval child. Although there is now detailed information on Roman and late medieval families, childhood in the Anglo-Saxon child is presented in this study of the archaeological evidence such as excavated cemeteries and settlement sites, as well as the more limited documentary sources. The book opens with a brief introduction to the study of childhood and family structure, and an examination of the available evidence. This is followed by a discussion of the age at which an Anglo-Saxon child was thought to have become an adult, and whether there were any rites of passage in the child's progression to adult status. The bulk of the study then follows the child's life right through from infancy to adolescence. Special attention is given to health and childcare, the position of the child within the family, and play and education. In an age when few children grew up with both parents still alive, a chapter is also devoted to the role of fosterage, godparents and adoption.
Anglo-Saxon childhood and the social history of children; archaeological sources; documentary sources; age thresholds and rites of passage; conception, birth and babies; infancy, baptism and the afterlife; health and childcare; the family; fosterage, God-parents and adoption; play and education; adolescence. Appendix: Anglo-Saxon lawcodes relating to children.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.12.1999 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | illustrations, tables, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Stroud |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 172 x 244 mm |
| Gewicht | 300 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7509-1918-3 / 0750919183 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7509-1918-0 / 9780750919180 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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