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Early Medieval English Life Courses Cultural-Historical Perspectives.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Porck, Thijs
Otros Autores: Soper, Harriet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2021.
Colección:Explorations in Medieval Culture Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Conceptualizing the Life Course in Early Medieval England
  • Part 1 Defining and Dividing the Life Course
  • Chapter 1 The Ages of Man and the Ages of Woman in Early Medieval England: From Bede to Byrhtferth of Ramsey and the Tractatus de quaternario
  • Chapter 2 Weapon-Boys and Once-Maidens: A Study of Old English Vocabulary for Stages of Life
  • Chapter 3 Alcuin and the Student Life Cycle
  • Part 2 The Life Course and the Human Body
  • Chapter 4 Treating Age in Medical Texts from Early Medieval England
  • Chapter 5 'Lazarus, Come Forth': Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Life Course of Early Medieval English Women
  • Chapter 6 The Theology of Puberty in Early Medieval England
  • Part 3 Intergenerational Dynamics
  • Chapter 7 Naming and Renaming: Names and the Life Course in Early Medieval England
  • Chapter 8 Moving on from 'the Milk of Simpler Teaching': Weaning and Religious Education in Early Medieval England
  • Chapter 9 Treasure and the Life Course in Genesis A and Beowulf
  • Part 4 Life beyond the Human
  • Chapter 10 The Life Course of Artefacts
  • Chapter 11 From Field to Feast: The Life (and Afterlife) Course of Cereal Crops in Early Medieval England
  • Afterword: History, Archaeology, and Osteology in Conversation
  • Bibliography
  • Index