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Becoming human : the matter of the medieval child / Allan J. Mitchell
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, J. Allan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Human body--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Humanity--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Children--History--To 1500--Europe.
- Children.
- Humanity--History--Social aspects--To 1500--Europe.
- Humanity.
- Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects--History--To 1500--Europe.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Human body--Social aspects--History--To 1500--Europe.
- Human body.
- Families--History--To 1500--Europe.
- Families.
- Material culture--History--To 1500--Europe.
- Material culture.
- Human ecology--History--To 1500--Europe.
- Human ecology.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Local Subjects:
- Children--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Human body--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Humanity--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. J. Allan Mitchell shows how the formation of the child expresses a manifold and mutable style of being. To be human is to learn to dwell among a welter of things. A searching and provocative historical inquiry into human becoming, the book presents a set of idiosyncratic essays on embryology and infancy, play and games, and manners, meals, and other messes. While it makes significant contr
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Being Born; Childish Things; The Mess; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4156-4
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