Oana-Maria Cojocaru

Byzantine Childhood (eBook, PDF)

Representations and Experiences of Children in Middle Byzantine Society

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in Medieval Byzantium, children's everyday life experiences, and their agency. It is necessary reading for scholars and students of Byzantine history, as well as those interested in the history of childhood and the family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000431889
• Artikelnr.: 62184114

Autorenporträt

Oana-Maria Cojocaru is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Umeå, Sweden, where she is conducting a project on disabled children in Byzantium. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Oslo, where she was part of the international project 'Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe'. She has taught about perceptions and conceptions of childhood in the Middle Ages and shared her research on the everyday life experiences of Byzantine children in talks and publications. She is co-editor of Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (Routledge 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Conceptions of childhood 2. The social and physical world
of Byzantine children 3. How it all starts: the first years of Byzantine
children's lives 4. Growing up in a Byzantine Family: socialization in the
domestic sphere 5. The child in the church: constructing religious identity
6. Life in the human hive: family networks and the social life of the
household 7. The monastic-to-be: life within monastery walls 8. Through the
eyes of children: two narratives of Byzantine children's everyday life
Conclusions