Early Medieval English Life Courses : Cultural-Historical Perspectives (Explorations in Medieval Culture)

Porck, Thijs (EDT)/ Soper, Harriet (EDT)

Brill（2021/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 372 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004499294

Full Description

How did the life course, with all its biological, social and cultural aspects, influence the lives, writings, and art of the inhabitants of early medieval England? This volume explores how phases of human life such as childhood, puberty, and old age were identified, characterized, and related in contemporary sources, as well as how nonhuman life courses were constructed. The multi-disciplinary contributions range from analyses of age vocabulary to studies of medicine, name-giving practices, theology, Old English poetry, and material culture. Combined, these cultural-historical perspectives reveal how the concept and experience of the life course shaped attitudes in early medieval England.

Contributors are Jo Appleby, Debby Banham, Darren Barber, Caroline R. Batten, James Chetwood, Katherine Cross, Amy Faulkner, Jacqueline Fay, Elaine Flowers, Daria Izdebska, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Thijs Porck, and Harriet Soper.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Conceptualizing the Life Course in Early Medieval England

 Thijs Porck and Harriet Soper

Part 1: Defining and Dividing the Life Course

1 The Ages of Man and the Ages of Woman in Early Medieval England: From Bede to Byrhtferth of Ramsey and the Tractatus de quaternario

 Thijs Porck

2 Weapon-Boys and Once-Maidens: A Study of Old English Vocabulary for Stages of Life

 Daria Izdebska

3 Alcuin and the Student Life Cycle

 Darren Barber

part 2: The Life Course and the Human Body

4 Treating Age in Medical Texts from Early Medieval England

 Jacqueline Fay

5 'Lazarus, Come Forth': Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Life Course of Early Medieval English Women

 Caroline R. Batten

6 The Theology of Puberty in Early Medieval England

 Elaine Flowers

Part 3: Intergenerational Dynamics

7 Naming and Renaming: Names and the Life Course in Early Medieval England

 James Chetwood

8 Moving On from 'the Milk of Simpler Teaching': Weaning and Religious Education in Early Medieval England

 Katherine Cross

9 Treasure and the Life Course in Genesis A and Beowulf

 Amy Faulkner

part 4: Life Beyond the Human

10 The Life Course of Artefacts

 Gale R. Owen-Crocker

11 From Field to Feast: The Life (and Afterlife) Course of Cereal Crops in Early Medieval England

 Debby Banham

12 Afterword: History, Archaeology and Osteology in Conversation

 Jo Appleby

Bibliography

Index