Youth and age in the medieval north
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: | The Northern world,
v. 42 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10363879 |
Table of 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 Fjθalkinge : 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 Gβisla 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. Skβorzewska
- 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 Sβanchez-Martβi
- Becoming 'old', ageism and taking care of the elderly in Iceland c. 900-1300 / Jon ViΊar SigurΊsson
- Old age in Viking-age Britain / Shannon Lewis-Simpson
- The patriarch : myth and reality / Armann Jakobsson
- Egill Skalla-Grβimsson : a Viking poet as a child and an old man / Yelena Sesselja Helgadβottir Yershova.