Youth and age in the medieval north
By: edited by Shannon Lewis-Simpson.
Contributors: Lewis-Simpson, Shannon.
Series: The northern world
Publisher: Boston : Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9789004170735
Subjects: Youth -- Europe, Northern -- History; Older people -- Europe, Northern -- History; Europe, Northern -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenges of quantifying youth and age in the medieval north / Shannon Lewis-Simpson; title: Forever young : child burial in Anglo-Saxon England / Christina Lee; title: Constructions of early childhood at the syncretic cemetery of Fjalkinge : a case study / Lotta Mejsholm; title: Child burials and children's status in medieval Norway / Berit J. Sellevold; title: Fosterage and dependency in medieval Iceland and its significance in Gisla Saga / Anna Hansen; title: The birth, childhood and adolescence of the early Icelandic bishops / Bernadine McCreesh; title: 'Sveinn einn ungr fell i syruker' : medieval Icelandic children in vernacular miracle stories / Joanna A. Skorzewska; title: Teenage angst : the structures and boundaries of adolescence in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Nic Percivall; title: Awkward adolescents : male maturation in old Norse literature / Carolyne Larrington; title: 'Spoiling them rotten?' : grandmothers and familial identity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Philadelphia Ricketts; title: Age matters in Old English literature / Jordi Sanchez-Marti; title: Becoming 'old', ageism and taking care of the elderly in Iceland c. 900-1300 / Jon Viðar Sigurðsson; title: Old age in Viking-age Britain / Shannon Lewis-Simpson; title: The patriarch : myth and reality / Armann Jakobsson; title: Egill Skalla-Grimsson : a Viking poet as a child and an old man / Yelena Sesselja Helgadottir Yershova.