Images of children in Byzantium
By: by Cecily Hennessy.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780754656319
Subjects: Children in art; Art, Byzantine; Children -- Byzantine Empire -- Social conditions
Description: "This book covers a subject that has never previously been addressed, and yet it is both a fascinating and a provocative one: the representation of children in Byzantium. The visual material is extensive, intriguing and striking, and the historical context is crucially important to our understanding of Byzantine culture, social history and artistic output. The imagery explored is drawn from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries and encompasses media from manuscripts to mosaics and enamel." "Cecily Hennessy demonstrates that children are featured often in visual imagery and in key locations, indicating that they played a central role in Byzantine life, something which has previously been overlooked or ignored. In tackling this new subject she reveals important aspects of childhood, youth, and by extension adulthood in Byzantine society and raises issues that are also applicable to the present and to other historical contexts."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Setting; title: Childhood; title: Family; title: Sanctity; title: Power; title: Jesus and Mary.