Title Becoming human : the matter of the medieval child / J. Allan Mitchell

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 249 pages .) Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE Contents Being Born -- Childish Things -- The Mess -- Epilogue Summary "Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. J. Allan Mitchell shows how the formation of the child expresses a manifold and mutable style of being. To be human is to learn to dwell among a welter of things. A searching and provocative historical inquiry into human becoming, the book presents a set of idiosyncratic essays on embryology and infancy, play and games, and manners, meals, and other messes. While it makes significant contributions to medieval scholarship on the body, family, and material culture, Becoming Human theorizes anew what might be called a medieval ecological imaginary. Mitchell examines a broad array of phenomenal objects--including medical diagrams, toy knights, tableware, conduct texts, dream visions, and scientific instruments--and in the process reanimates distinctly medieval ontologies. In addressing the emergence of the human in the later Middle Ages, Mitchell identifies areas where humanity remains at risk. In illuminating the past, he shines fresh light on our present"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Children -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Humanity -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Human body -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Families -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Material culture -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Human ecology -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 PHILOSOPHY -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies. Children Families Human body -- Social aspects Human ecology Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects Manners and customs Material culture SUBJECT Europe -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045760 Civilization, Medieval Subject Europe Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2013037982 ISBN 1452941564 9781452941561 9781452949529 1452949522

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