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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis-Simpson, Shannon.

Series:

Northern world ; 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.

Europe, Northern--Social life and customs.

Europe, Northern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Following from themes explored during the 2005 International Medieval Congress on ‘Youth and Age’, this interdisciplinary volume focuses upon social, cultural and biological aspects of being young and old in the medieval north. The contributors progress definitions of young and old in the north, taking into account changing mentalities as a result of political and cultural transformations such as the Christianisation of the north. This book invites discourse on youth and age amongst medieval archaeologists, historians, and philologists, while introducing particularities of medieval research to sociologists and gerontologists working within other periods and areas. The contributors, representing both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field, showcase the diverse issues that surround interdisciplinary studies of youth and age. Contributors are Christina Lee, Lotta Mejsholm, Berit J. Sellevold, Anna Hansen, Bernadine McCreesh, Joanna A. Skórzewska, Nic Percivall, Carolyne Larrington, Philadelphia Ricketts, Jordi Sánchez-Martí, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Shannon Lewis-Simpson, Ármann Jakobsson, and Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir Yershova

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 Viar Sigursson

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-40002-9

9786612400025

90-474-2404-2

OCLC:

567444483

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004170735.i-310 DOI