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Youth in the Middle Ages

By Felicity Riddy

Youth in the Middle Ages

By Felicity Riddy

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Moving on from the legacy of Ariès, these essays address evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. The contents include the idea of childhood in the writing of Gregory of Tours, skaldic verse narratives and their implications for the understanding of kingship, Jewish communities of Northern Europe for whom children represented the continuity of a persecuted faith, children in the records of the northern Italian Humiliati, the meaning of romance narratives centred around the departure of the hero or heroine from the natal hearth, the age at which later medieval English youngsters left home, how far they travelled and where they went, literary sources revealing the politicisation of the idea of the child, and the response of young, affluent females to homiletic literature and the iconography of the virgin martyrs in the later middle ages.Contributors: FRANCES E. ANDREWS, HELEN COOPER, P.J.P.GOLDBERG, SIMCHA GOLDIN, EDWARD F. JAMES, JUDITH JESCH, KIM M. PHILLIPS, MIKE TYLER, ROSALYNN VOADEN.
Product details
Number of Pages:
154
Release Date:
2004-04-30
Publication Date:
2004-03-18
Publisher:
York Medieval Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1903153131
ISBN13:
9781903153130
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
402 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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