John of Salisbury: An Argument for Philosophy within Education
John of Salisbury: An Argument for Philosophy within Education Turgeon, Wendy C. ANALYTIC TEACHING Vol. 18 No.2 (1999) Abstract Many commentators on the…
Concepts of Childhood: What We Know and Where We Might Go
They have explored such issues, among others, as the varieties of European household structure; definitions of the stages of life; childbirth, wetnursing, and the role of the midwife; child abandonment and the foundling home; infanticide and its prosecution; apprenticeship, servitude, and fostering; the evolution of schooling; the consequences of religious diversification; and the impact of gender
Spiritual woman warrior : the construction of Joan of Arc in contemporary children’s literature
Spiritual woman warrior : the construction of Joan of Arc in contemporary children’s literature By Melanie J. Fishbane Master’s Thesis, Concordia University, 2003…
“The Mark of the beast: revisioning the medieval bestiary in the 20th century”
Vagantes Conference Session 2: Reception, Memory & Identity “The Mark of the beast: revisioning the medieval bestiary in the 20th century” Raina Polivka…
Sanctity and Society: the anti-theme of childhood innocence in the English Courtesy Books
Sanctity and Society: the anti-theme of childhood innocence in the English Courtesy Books Bellis, Joanna Marginalia, Vol. 8, Cambridge Yearbook, (2008) Abstract The…
Betrayed: The Legend of Oak Island
Betrayed: The Legend of Oak Island Dinsdale, Christopher Publisher:Napoleon & Company ISBN: 9781894917919 Summary The fate of the known world is settled on…
Heroes of the Valley
Heroes of the Valley By Jonathan Stroud Publisher:Hyperion Books for Children, Nov 22, 2010 ISBN:978-1423109662 Summary Halli Sveinsson has grown up in the…
Missing, Presumed Buried? Bone Diagenesis and the Under-Representation of Anglo-Saxon Children.
Missing, Presumed Buried? Bone Diagenesis and the Under-Representation of Anglo-Saxon Children Buckberry, Jo Assemblage, Issue 5 (2000) Abstract Sam Lucy (1994: 26) has…
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village By Laura Amy Schlitz Candlewick Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7636-1578-9 Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons…
Keeper Of The Grail
Keeper Of The Grail By Michael P. Spradlin Publisher: Penguin Young Reader Group, September 18, 2009 ISBN: 9780399247637 1191 A.D. The orphan Tristan…
Trail of Fate
Trail of Fate By Michael P. Spradlin Publisher: Penguin Young Reader Group, November 3, 2009 ISBN: 9780399247644 In the Middle Ages, young squire…
Time Warp Trio
Time Warp Trio is a series of children’s novels and a television series aimed at kids aged 7 to 10. The premise of…
Representations of Anglo-Saxon England in Children’s Literature
The way in which children’s authors have translated medieval history into their own “historicity” has changed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as popular and scholarly attitudes toward the Middle Ages have changed. Looking at these changes, my purpose in this thesis will be to answer two questions: why would children’s authors draw upon Anglo-Saxon England for their subject matter? And, what relevance does children’s literature have for an audience of medievalists?