By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children in antiquity lived, their experience of everyday life, and what the limits were for their agency. The volume brings together scholars of archaeology and material culture, classicists, ancient historians, theologians, and scholars of early Christianity and Judaism, all of whom have long been involved in the study of the social and cultural history of children. While the main focus of the volume is on Late Antiquity its coverage begins with the early Roman Empire, and extends to the early ninth century CE.…mehr
By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children in antiquity lived, their experience of everyday life, and what the limits were for their agency. The volume brings together scholars of archaeology and material culture, classicists, ancient historians, theologians, and scholars of early Christianity and Judaism, all of whom have long been involved in the study of the social and cultural history of children. While the main focus of the volume is on Late Antiquity its coverage begins with the early Roman Empire, and extends to the early ninth century CE.
Christian Laes is an associate professor of ancient history and Latin at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and an adjunct professor in ancient history at the history department of the University of Tampere, Finland. He has studied the social and cultural history of Rome and Late Antiquity, paying particular attention to the human life course: childhood; youth; family; slavery; old age; sexuality; and disabilities. His monographs, and over 70 contributions have been published by international publishers and journals. Ville Vuolanto is research fellow at IFIKK, University of Oslo, Norway, and adjunct professor in general history at the University of Tampere, Finland. He has published a number of articles on the history of the family and childhood in the Roman and early medieval periods, and is now writing a monograph on children in Oxyrhynchos (with April Pudsey). His latest book Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Continuity, Family Dynamics and the Rise of Christianity was published in 2015.
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List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1. A New Paradigm for the Social History of Childhood and Children in Antiquity Christian Laes and Ville Vuolanto 2. Agency, Experience, and the Children in the Past. The Case of Roman Childhood Ville Vuolanto Setting the Scene: Experiences and Environments 3. Children and the Urban Environment: Agency in Pompeii Ray Laurence 4. Little Tunics for Little People: the Problems of Visualising the Wardrobe of the Roman child Mary Harlow 5. Touching Children in Roman Antiquity: the Sentimental Discourse and the Family Christian Laes 6. Being a Niece or Nephew in an Ancient City. Children's Social Environment in Roman Oxyrhynchos April Pudsey and Ville Vuolanto What Did the Roman Children Actually Do? 7. Leisure as a Site of Child Socialisation. Agency and Resistance in the Roman Empire Jerry Toner 8. Roman Girls and Boys at Play: Realities and Representations Fanny Dolansky 9. Age, Agency, and Material Culture in the Roman World: the Graffiti Evidence from Roman Campania Katherine Huntley 10. Why Roman Pupils Lacked a Long Vacation Konrad Vössing 11. Becoming a Roman Student W. Martin Bloomer Religious Practices and Sacred Spaces 12. Roman Children as Religious Agents: The Cognitive Foundations of Cult Jakob Mackey 13. Jewish Childhood in the Roman Galilee. Sabbath in Tiberias (c. 300 CE) Hagith Sivan 14. Resistance and Agency in the Everyday Life of Late Antique Children (3rd-8th c CE) Béatrice Caseau 15. Children in Monastic Families in Egypt at the End of Antiquity Maria Chiara Giorda 16. Every-Day Life of Children in Ninth-Century Byzantine Monasteries Oana Cojocaru A Cruel World: Accidents, Disability and Death 17. Children's Accidents in the Roman Empire: The Medical Eye on 500 Years of Mishaps in Injured Children Lutz Alexander Graumann 18. Listening for the Voices of Two Disabled Girls in Early Christian Literature Anna Rebecca Solevåg 19. Children and the Experience of Death in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine World Cornelia Horn 20. How Close Can We Get to the Roman Child? Reflections on Methodological Achievements and New Advances Reidar Aasgaard Bibliography Index
List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1. A New Paradigm for the Social History of Childhood and Children in Antiquity Christian Laes and Ville Vuolanto 2. Agency, Experience, and the Children in the Past. The Case of Roman Childhood Ville Vuolanto Setting the Scene: Experiences and Environments 3. Children and the Urban Environment: Agency in Pompeii Ray Laurence 4. Little Tunics for Little People: the Problems of Visualising the Wardrobe of the Roman child Mary Harlow 5. Touching Children in Roman Antiquity: the Sentimental Discourse and the Family Christian Laes 6. Being a Niece or Nephew in an Ancient City. Children's Social Environment in Roman Oxyrhynchos April Pudsey and Ville Vuolanto What Did the Roman Children Actually Do? 7. Leisure as a Site of Child Socialisation. Agency and Resistance in the Roman Empire Jerry Toner 8. Roman Girls and Boys at Play: Realities and Representations Fanny Dolansky 9. Age, Agency, and Material Culture in the Roman World: the Graffiti Evidence from Roman Campania Katherine Huntley 10. Why Roman Pupils Lacked a Long Vacation Konrad Vössing 11. Becoming a Roman Student W. Martin Bloomer Religious Practices and Sacred Spaces 12. Roman Children as Religious Agents: The Cognitive Foundations of Cult Jakob Mackey 13. Jewish Childhood in the Roman Galilee. Sabbath in Tiberias (c. 300 CE) Hagith Sivan 14. Resistance and Agency in the Everyday Life of Late Antique Children (3rd-8th c CE) Béatrice Caseau 15. Children in Monastic Families in Egypt at the End of Antiquity Maria Chiara Giorda 16. Every-Day Life of Children in Ninth-Century Byzantine Monasteries Oana Cojocaru A Cruel World: Accidents, Disability and Death 17. Children's Accidents in the Roman Empire: The Medical Eye on 500 Years of Mishaps in Injured Children Lutz Alexander Graumann 18. Listening for the Voices of Two Disabled Girls in Early Christian Literature Anna Rebecca Solevåg 19. Children and the Experience of Death in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine World Cornelia Horn 20. How Close Can We Get to the Roman Child? Reflections on Methodological Achievements and New Advances Reidar Aasgaard Bibliography Index
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