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Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in
medieval Byzantium, children's everyday experiences, and their
agency. By piecing together a wide range of sources and utilising
several methodological approaches inspired by intersectionality,
history from below and microhistory, it analyses the life course of
Byzantine boys and girls and how medieval Byzantine society
perceived and treated them according to societal and cultural
expectations surrounding age, gender, and status. Ultimately, it
seeks to reconstruct a more plausible picture of the everyday life
of children, one of the most vulnerable social groups throughout
history and often a neglected subject in scholarship. Written in a
lively and engaging manner, this book is necessary reading for
scholars and students of Byzantine history, as well as those
interested in the history of childhood and the family.
Inquiring into childhood is one of the most appropriate ways to
address the perennial and essential question of what it is that
makes human beings - each of us - human. In Childhood in History:
Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds,
Aasgaard, Horn, and Cojocaru bring together the groundbreaking work
of nineteen leading scholars in order to advance interdisciplinary
historical research into ideas about children and childhood in the
premodern history of European civilization. The volume gathers rich
insights from fields as varied as pedagogy and medicine, and
literature and history. Drawing on a range of sources in genres
that extend from philosophical, theological, and educational
treatises to law, art, and poetry, from hagiography and
autobiography to school lessons and sagas, these studies aim to
bring together these diverse fields and source materials, and to
allow the development of new conversations. This book will have
fulfilled its unifying and explicit goal if it provides an impetus
to further research in social and intellectual history, and if it
prompts both researchers and the interested wider public to ask new
questions about the experiences of children, and to listen to their
voices.
Inquiring into childhood is one of the most appropriate ways to
address the perennial and essential question of what it is that
makes human beings - each of us - human. In Childhood in History:
Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds,
Aasgaard, Horn, and Cojocaru bring together the groundbreaking work
of nineteen leading scholars in order to advance interdisciplinary
historical research into ideas about children and childhood in the
premodern history of European civilization. The volume gathers rich
insights from fields as varied as pedagogy and medicine, and
literature and history. Drawing on a range of sources in genres
that extend from philosophical, theological, and educational
treatises to law, art, and poetry, from hagiography and
autobiography to school lessons and sagas, these studies aim to
bring together these diverse fields and source materials, and to
allow the development of new conversations. This book will have
fulfilled its unifying and explicit goal if it provides an impetus
to further research in social and intellectual history, and if it
prompts both researchers and the interested wider public to ask new
questions about the experiences of children, and to listen to their
voices.
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