Youth and age in the medieval north
Youth and age in the medieval north [electronic resource] /
edited by Shannon Lewis-Simpson.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- ix, 308 p. : ill.
- The Northern world, v. 42 1569-1462 ; .
- Northern world ; v. 42. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The challenges of quantifying youth and age in the medieval North / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- Forever young : child burial in Anglo-Saxon England / Christina Lee -- Constructions of early childhood at the syncretic cemetery of Fjälkinge : a case study / Lotta Mejsholm -- Child burials and children's status in medieval Norway / Berit J. Sellevold -- Fosterage and dependency in medieval Iceland and its significance in Gísla Saga / Anna Hansen -- The birth, childhood and adolescence of the early Icelandic bishops / Bernadine McCreesh -- 'Sveinn einn ungr fell i syruker' : medieval Icelandic children in vernacular miracle stories / Joanna A. Skórzewska -- Teenage angst : the structures and boundaries of adolescence in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Nic Percivall -- Awkward adolescents : male maturation in old Norse literature / Carolyne Larrington -- 'Spoiling them rotten?' : grandmothers and familial identity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Philadelphia Ricketts -- Age matters in Old English literature / Jordi Sánchez-Martí -- Becoming 'old', ageism and taking care of the elderly in Iceland c. 900-1300 / Jon Viðar Sigurðsson -- Old age in Viking-age Britain / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- The patriarch : myth and reality / Armann Jakobsson -- Egill Skalla-Grímsson : a Viking poet as a child and an old man / Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir Yershova.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA8A6210 bnb
Uk bccb
Youth--History.--Europe, Northern
Older people--History.--Europe, Northern
Europe, Northern--Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
HQ799.E853 / Y68 2008eb
305.2350948
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The challenges of quantifying youth and age in the medieval North / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- Forever young : child burial in Anglo-Saxon England / Christina Lee -- Constructions of early childhood at the syncretic cemetery of Fjälkinge : a case study / Lotta Mejsholm -- Child burials and children's status in medieval Norway / Berit J. Sellevold -- Fosterage and dependency in medieval Iceland and its significance in Gísla Saga / Anna Hansen -- The birth, childhood and adolescence of the early Icelandic bishops / Bernadine McCreesh -- 'Sveinn einn ungr fell i syruker' : medieval Icelandic children in vernacular miracle stories / Joanna A. Skórzewska -- Teenage angst : the structures and boundaries of adolescence in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Nic Percivall -- Awkward adolescents : male maturation in old Norse literature / Carolyne Larrington -- 'Spoiling them rotten?' : grandmothers and familial identity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Philadelphia Ricketts -- Age matters in Old English literature / Jordi Sánchez-Martí -- Becoming 'old', ageism and taking care of the elderly in Iceland c. 900-1300 / Jon Viðar Sigurðsson -- Old age in Viking-age Britain / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- The patriarch : myth and reality / Armann Jakobsson -- Egill Skalla-Grímsson : a Viking poet as a child and an old man / Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir Yershova.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA8A6210 bnb
Uk bccb
Youth--History.--Europe, Northern
Older people--History.--Europe, Northern
Europe, Northern--Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
HQ799.E853 / Y68 2008eb
305.2350948