Children Archive
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Infant Burials and Christianization: The View from East Central Europe
Posted on May 19, 2013 | No CommentsThis was the second paper in the Early Medieval Europe I series given at KZOO and another fabulous archaeology paper. It contrasted infant grave sites in early converted medieval Poland and Anglo Saxon England. -
“Full Faith and Credit” in Merrie Olde England: New Insights for Marriage Conflicts Law from the Thirteenth Century
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsHere the subject is full faith and credit and the implications which the exposure of the myth of universality might carry for the recognition of judgments concerning marriage. As with the choice of law problem, so with the recognition of judgments, there is discovered in the anti- quities of English law a perception and comprehension exceeding our own. -
En/gendering representations of childbirth in fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish devotional manuscripts
Posted on January 27, 2013 | No CommentsLate-medieval representationsof the births of holy and heroic children invariably show a domestic interior with the new mother lying in bed attended by female assistants.These images thus appearto show a `genderedspace' in which women cared for each other and from which men were marginalized. -
Awkward Adolescents: Male Maturation in Norse Literature
Posted on January 25, 2013 | No CommentsAlthough medieval masculinities have become a subject of scholarly interest, there has been relatively little discussion of the transition in Old Norse until very recently. -
Girls Growing Up In Later Medieval England
Posted on January 1, 2013 | No CommentsTeenage pregnancy and street gossip – but also lessons in housekeeping and good husbandry. Jeremy Goldberg draws on contemporary documents to assess the pluses and minuses of entering adulthood as a woman in the late Middle Ages. -
TROUBLESOME CHILDREN IN THE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS
Posted on December 28, 2012 | No CommentsIt must be stressed that the concept of childhood is certainly not an easy one. One is tempted to ask whether any generalisations about medieval or modern attitudes to childhood might not pose problems. -
Fleas, Flies, and Friars: Children’s Poetry from the Middle Ages
Posted on December 24, 2012 | No CommentsIn Fleas, Flies, and Friars, Nicholas Orme, an expert on childhood in the Middle Ages, has gathered a wide variety of children's verse that circulated in England beginning in the 1400s, providing a way for modern readers of all ages to experience the medieval world through the eyes of its children. -
Beyond fragments and shards: Children in medieval Bergen
Posted on December 10, 2012 | No CommentsBy analysing physical remains reflecting the games, behaviour and clothing of children (specifically toys and shoes) it has been possible to obtain new information and shed new light on the everyday life of children in medieval Bergen -
Dark Age Migrations and Subjective Ethnicity: The Example of the Lombards
Posted on December 5, 2012 | No CommentsThis study is an attempt to clarify the functions and structure of the Volker- wanderungen. Peoples or warrior-bands? The basic problem is that small warrior bands as well as big migrations of peoples are characterized in the same way by the classical and early medieval writers: they used tribal names. -
An Unexpected Audience: Manner Manuals in Renaissance Europe
Posted on November 28, 2012 | No CommentsTranslated into twenty-two languages within the first decade of publication, On Civility in Children was the cultural phenomenon of the day -
A Marginal Occupation? The Medieval Laundress and her Work
Posted on November 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe wider study of an ostensibly menial activity that, with certain notable exceptions, offered insecure and poorly paid employment to illiterate women of low status is certainly beset with problems. -
Noble and Urban Family-Structures in the Late Middle Ages in the Hungarian Kingdom
Posted on November 15, 2012 | No CommentsThe everyday life of the clan people was filled with disputes over small plots, since it was the main duty of each generation to preserve and enlarge the lands of the clan. It was also the basic interest of the members of the clans to secure the survival of the clan by marriages that were fertile in every sense. It was a sign of the strength of the clan that the members had to consult before taking decisions in questions of marriage, inheritance. -
Shifting Experiences: The Changing Roles of Women in the Italian, Lowland, and German Regions of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
Posted on November 12, 2012 | No CommentsSpecifically, the thesis compares and analyzes the changing roles that women could employ economically, politically, socially, and religiously. -
What is Medieval Times?
Posted on September 10, 2012 | No CommentsWhat is Medieval Times? Medievalists.net decided to see for ourselves and go to the Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament in Toronto, Canada. Here is our report on the show: -
Mothering in the Casa Datini
Posted on September 8, 2012 | No CommentsThe Casa Datini flourished in a region and during a period that historians have carefully explored for decades. Despite its value, however, few researchers travel to Prato to use the Datini collection. -
Gender Equality in Wage Labour Relations: the example of statutory regulation in late medieval and early Tudor England
Posted on September 2, 2012 | No CommentsThe first question, not yet raised in labour historiography, is about the impact of wage labour relations on gender equality. The second question is related to the first one: what role did women play as protagonists of wage labour relations. -
Fruit of the Womb: Prenatal Food in Renaissance Italy
Posted on August 26, 2012 | No CommentsOne of the crucial tenants of humoral theory is the belief that females are of a colder and wetter disposition than the hotter, drier nature of males. To achieve optimal health the humors needed to be in perfect balance, as seen in all recommendations for food, drink, preparation and even environment. -
Agricultural wage labour in fifteenth-century England
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsIn the period when agriculture dominated almost every aspect of daily life, the lords and wealthy peasants relied on paid labourers for farming business, yardlanders hired labourers to work with them, whilst moderate and landless villagers worked for hire. Agrarian wage labour is a window on the economy as well as on agricultural society. -
Vilification of Identity and the Exilic Narrative: The Illustrated Pied Piper Story
Posted on July 22, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper situates The Pied Piper story as an exilic narrative, part of a larger repertoire of stories that follow the romantic quest-myth formula, a formula that conveys a totla metaphor for the “journey of life”. -
City Orphans and Custody Laws in Medieval England
Posted on July 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe extent to which English towns protected children during the Middle Ages is known only in broad outline. -
Oar walking, underwater wrestling and horse fighting – historian examines the sports and games of the Vikings
Posted on July 2, 2012 | No CommentsPlaying ball games is an activity played by children around the world. But while parents might worry that their sons and daughters might get scrapes and bruises, in the Viking world such a game could end with an axe being driven into an opponents head. -
Oda: An Extraordinary Example of a Medieval Woman’s Religious Authority and Economic Power
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No Commentshristianity posed as a shackle for many women in the early Middle Ages. Though sexism and female subordination were prevalent prior to the emergence of this monotheistic religion, Christianity established its own justifications for continuing in the male domination. -
Women and Marriage in Medieval Society
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe feudal world was a face-to-face society in which women participated in important activities and were expected to submit to social discipline like their men. -
Flowers for the Book-binder’s Wife: An Investigation of Florilegia and Early Modern Women’s Writing
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsTo an early modern, nothing could be fully learned through a “hands off” approach. Heidi Brayman Hackel corroborates this with her book, Reading Material. Critical to early modern thoughts on comprehension was “taking note,” a phrasing that carried the double implication of both noticing and annotating... -
Diseases as causes of divorce in Byzantium
Posted on February 5, 2012 | No CommentsΤhe purpose of this study is to describe the diseases for which divorce could be issued if one of the spouses wanted, in Byzantine times.
