Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Laes, Christian; Vuolanto, Ville

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317175506
• Artikelnr.: 47137443

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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