Youth and age in the medieval north / edited by Shannon Lewis-Simpson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis-Simpson, Shannon.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Northern world 1569-1462 ; v. 42.

The Northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Europe, Northern--History.

Youth.

Older people--Europe, Northern--History.

Older people.

Manners and customs.

History.

Europe, Northern--Social life and customs.

Europe, Northern.

Northern Europe.

Physical Description:

ix, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Contents:

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 i 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 old 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 / Jon Viðar Sigurðsson

Old age in Viking-age Britain / Shannon Lewis-Simpson

The patriarch : myth and reality / Armann Jakobsson

Egill Skalla-Grímsson : a Viking poet as a child and an old man / Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir Yershova.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789004170735

9004170731

OCLC:

243845408