Childhood and adolescence in Anglo-Saxon literary culture / edited by Susan Irvine and Winfried Rudolf
- Published
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Irvine, Susan (Susan Elizabeth) and Rudolf, Winfried
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- Series
- Contents
- Introduction / Susan Irvine & Winfried Rudolf -- 1. Childhood and adolescence: interdisciplinary approaches to the archaeological and documentary evidence / Sally Crawford -- 2. Naming children in Anglo-Saxon England: ethnic identity and cultural change / Leonard Neidorf -- 3. Anglo-Saxon preaching on children / Winfried Rudolf -- 4. Tender beginnings in the Exeter book 'Riddles' / Shu-han Luo -- 5. Parenting and childhood in 'The fortunes of men' / Stacy S. Klein -- 6. Children and the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons in Bede's 'Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum' / Andreas Lemke -- 7. Childhood in the lives of Anglo-Saxon saints / Joyce Hill -- 8. Alcuin's educational dispute: the riddle of teaching and the teaching of riddles / Andy Orchard -- 9. Foster-relationships in the Old English Boethius / Susan Irvine -- 10. Hrothulf's childhood and Beowulf's: a comparison / Richard North -- 11. Of boys and men: Anglo-Saxon literary adaptations of the Book of Daniel / Daniel Anlezark -- 12. "Sharper than a serpent's tooth": parent-child litigation in Anglo-Saxon England / Andrew Rabin.
- Summary
- After decades of study dominated by adult gender studies, Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture rebalances our understanding of family life in the Anglo-Saxon era by reconstructing the lives of medieval children and adolescents through their literary representation.
- Subject(s)
- 450-1100
- English literature—Old English, ca. 450-1100—History and criticism
- Children in literature
- Adolescence in literature
- Families in literature
- Littérature anglaise—ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais)—Histoire et critique
- Adolescence dans la littérature
- Familles dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM—European—English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English literature—Old English
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781487514433 (electronic bk.)
1487514433 (electronic bk.)
9781487502027 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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