Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture /

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Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an unremittingly bleak experience. The contributors analyse representations of children and their education in Old English, Old Norse and Anglo-Latin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Irvine, Susan (Editor ), Rudolf, Winfried (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Colección:Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
Temas:
Adolescence in literature.
Children in literature.
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Families in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Childhood and Adolescence: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Archaeological and Documentary Evidence
  • 2. Naming Children in Anglo-Saxon England: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Change
  • 3. Anglo-Saxon Preaching on Children
  • 4. Tender Beginnings in the Exeter Book Riddles
  • 5. Parenting and Childhood in The Fortunes of Men
  • 6. Children and the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
  • 7. Childhood in the Lives of Anglo-Saxon Saints
  • 8. Alcuin's Educational Dispute: The Riddle of Teaching and the Teaching of Riddles
  • 9. Foster-Relationships in the Old English Boethius
  • 10. Hrothulf's Childhood and Beowulf's: A Comparison
  • 11. Of Boys and Men: Anglo-Saxon Literary Adaptations of the Book of Daniel
  • 12. "Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth": Parent-Child Litigation in Anglo-Saxon England
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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