| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 42 |
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Northern world ; v. 42.
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| 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 Fjälkinge : 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 Gísla 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. Skórzewska -- 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 Sánchez-Martí -- Becoming 'old', ageism and taking care of the elderly in Iceland c. 900-1300 / Jon Viðar Sigurðsson -- Old age in Viking-age Britain / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- The patriarch : myth and reality / Armann Jakobsson -- Egill Skalla-Grímsson : a Viking poet as a child and an old man / Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir Yershova |
| Summary |
Following from themes explored during the 2005 International Medieval Congress on 'Youth and Age', this volume focuses upon social, cultural and biological aspects of being young and old in the medieval north. It showcases the diverse issues that surround interdisciplinary studies of youth and age |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Youth -- Europe, Northern -- History
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Older people -- Europe, Northern -- History
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Adolescence.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Teenagers.
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Manners and customs
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Older people
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Youth
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Jugend
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Alter
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| SUBJECT |
Europe, Northern -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Northern Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lewis-Simpson, Shannon.
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| ISBN |
9789047424048 |
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9047424042 |
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1282400029 |
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9781282400023 |
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9786612400025 |
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6612400021 |
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