Childhood in medieval Poland (1050-1300)
| Titel: | Childhood in medieval Poland (1050-1300) : constructions and realities in a European context / by Matthew B. Koval |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2021] |
| Umfang: | 220 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einheitssachtitel: | Hopes, fears, and possibilities |
| Hochschulschrift: | Dissertation, University of Florida, 2019 |
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| ISBN: | 9789004460997 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Acknowledgements
- p. vii
- List of Figures and Tables
- p. viii
- 1
- Introduction
- p. 1
- 1
- Historiographical Context
- p. 3
- 2
- Description of Contents
- p. 14
- 2
- Child and Hero: The Use of Childhood in the Narrative of Gallus Anonymus
- p. 17
- 1
- Who Was Gallus? New Approaches to the Deeds of the Princes of the Poles
- p. 18
- 2
- Childhood as a Time of Development and Prophecy
- p. 21
- 3
- Age Terminology and Dynastic Status: When is a Man a Man?
- p. 34
- 4
- Vulnerability and Care: From Parents and the Community
- p. 37
- 5
- Motherly Care and Female Children
- p. 42
- 6
- Comparisons: Cosmas of Prague
- p. 43
- 7
- Conclusions
- p. 45
- 3
- Vincent Kadlubek and Thinking with Children
- p. 48
- 1
- Vincent's Overlap with Gallus
- p. 51
- 2
- Parental Love of Children ... and the Virtue of Violating It
- p. 57
- 3
- Filial and Familial Piety
- p. 59
- 4
- Childishness, a Negative Stereotype Applied to Rulers
- p. 63
- 5
- Prophecy and Children
- p. 67
- 6
- Child(hood) as a Rhetorical Device
- p. 69
- 7
- Conclusions
- p. 71
- 4
- The Henryków Book: The Weight of Future Children and the Threat of Youth
- p. 73
- 1
- The Text and Its Purpose
- p. 74
- 2
- Youth as Part of Dynasty and Potential Threat
- p. 80
- 3
- How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down: What Is a Responsible Age?
- p. 85
- 4
- "Kids These Days": Disappointment in the Next Generation
- p. 89
- 5
- Memory and Youth, a New Kind of Remembrance in Poland
- p. 94
- 6
- The Care for Children
- p. 98
- 7
- Conclusions
- p. 100
- 5
- Children and Childhood in Hagiography
- p. 102
- 1
- Are Good Children Serious Children?
- p. 104
- 2
- Education Issues: Nature vs. Nurture, God as Teacher, Male vs. Female
- p. 112
- 3
- Precious or Burdensome? Children Three Years and Younger
- p. 119
- 4
- Children, Childhood, and Descendants in the Canonization Story of St. Stanislaw
- p. 127
- 5
- The Miracles
- p. 130
- 6
- Latin Words Relating to Children in the Miracula: Exceptions and Rules
- p. 135
- 7
- Conclusions
- p. 137
- 6
- The Child in the Community of the Dead
- p. 139
- 1
- Incidence of Child Burials
- p. 141
- 2
- The Problem of Grave Goods in Child Burials
- p. 149
- 3
- Multiple Burials
- p. 153
- 4
- Spatial Features of Child Burials
- p. 158
- 5
- In Search of Pattern: Micro vs. Macro Comparisons
- p. 166
- 6
- Age, Sex, and Grave Goods
- p. 168
- 7
- Final Thoughts
- p. 173
- 7
- Conclusions and Comparisons
- p. 176
- 1
- The Child as Symbol of the Future, Prophecy
- p. 176
- 2
- Born Great or Achieving Greatness?
- p. 178
- 3
- Age and Social Categories
- p. 181
- 4
- Special Care for Children
- p. 185
- 5
- Children and Emotion
- p. 189
- 6
- Good Kid, Bad Kid
- p. 192
- 7
- Thinking with Children
- p. 195
- 8
- Children in a Wider Context
- p. 198
- Appendix
- p. 203
- Bibliography
- p. 210
- Index of Modern Authors
- p. 221
- Index of Subjects
- p. 222
