Kids Those Days: Children in Medieval Culture

Lahney Preston-Matto, Ph.D. (2000), New York University, is Professor of Medieval Literature at Adelphi University. She has written numerous articles on medieval fosterage in northern Europe. She is the author of Aislinge meic Conglinne/ The Vision of Mac Conglinne (Syracuse University Press, 2010).Mary A. Valante, Ph.D. (1998), The Pennsylvania State University, is Professor of Medieval History at Appalachian State University. She has published articles on early medieval and Viking-Age Ireland, and is the author of The Vikings in Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2008).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Out from a ShadowLahney Preston-Matto and Mary A. Valantepart 1: Children in Medieval Religion1 The Disrobing Child in the Entry into Jerusalem Scene: An Element of Realism or Symbolism in Byzantine Art?Sophia Germanidou2 Boy Becoming ManLiturgical Inversion in the Boy Bishop Ceremony in Medieval EnglandGavin Fort3 Apocryphal YouthThe Childhood of the Irish SaintMáire Johnson4 Minors and the MiraculousThe Cure-Seeking Experiences of Children in Twelfth-Century English HagiographyRuth J. Salter5 The Infirm Child between Parental Worry and Divine PowersJenni Kuulialapart 2: Children in Medieval Law and Justice6 “I Would Like to Make It Up to You by Fostering Your Son”Fosterage and Fixing Relations in Medieval IcelandLahney Preston-Matto7 Childhood in the Common Law Courts of Medieval IrelandBridgette Slavin8 Puerile JusticeThe Voice of a Boy in Jack and His StepdameMelissa Elizabeth Raine9 Foreign Guardianship and the Networked Child in Medieval English RomancePaul Broylespart 3: Vulnerable Children10 The Loss of InnocenceChildhood and Transition to Adulthood in the Mortuary Practices of the Early Viking AgeSarah Croix11 It Takes a VillageCommunity Responses to Child Death in High and Late Medieval EnglandDanielle Griego12 Havelok’s SistersVulnerability and the Child BodyEve Salisbury13 Patriarchy, Violence and Sacrifice in the Middle English Slaughter of the Innocents PlaysDaniel T. Kline14 Abandoned, Overworked, AbusedThe Dark Side of Childhoods in Early Medieval IrelandMary A. ValanteBibliographySuggested Additional ReadingIndex