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"Inquiring into childhood is one of the most appropriate ways to address the perennial and essential question of what it is that makes human beings - each of us - human. In Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Aasgaard, Horn, and Cojocaru bring together the groundbreaking work of nineteen leading scholars in order to advance interdisciplinary historical research into ideas about children and childhood in the premodern history of European civilization. The volume gathers rich insights from fields as varied as pedagogy and medicine, and literature and history. Drawing on a range of sources in genres that extend from philosophical, theological, and educational treatises to law, art, and poetry, from hagiography and autobiography to school lessons and sagas, these studies aim to bring together these diverse fields and source materials, and to allow the development of new conversations. This book will have fulfilled its unifying and explicit goal if it provides an impetus to further research in social and intellectual history, and if it prompts both researchers and the interested wider public to ask new questions about the experiences of children, and to listen to their voices."--Back cover

In recent years, major new archaeological discoveries have redefined the development of towns and cities in the Japanese archipelago. The uncovering of the plans of major port towns such as Sakai, Kusado Sengen and Ichijodani, and the revealing of early phases in the development of cities such as Kamakura and Hakata provide an important new resource in understanding the cultural and economic processes which shaped medieval Japan. This fully illustrated book provides a sampler of these findings for a western audience

1. What conflict means : the making of medieval conflict studies in the United States, 1970-2000 / Warren C. Brown and Piotr Gorecki -- 2. Tenth-century courts at Macon and the perils of structuralist history : re-reading Burgundian judicial institutions / Stephen D. White -- 3. Reform and lordship in Alsace at the turn of the millennium / Hans Hummer -- 4. Visualizing a dispute resolution : Peter of Albano's protected zone / Barbara H. Rosenwein -- 5. The fragmentation and redemption of a medieval cathedral : property, conflict, and public piety in eleventh-century Arezzo / William North -- 6. Punishments in eleventh-century Normandy / Emily Zack Tabuteau -- 7. Baldwin VII of Flanders and the Toll of Saint-Vaast (1111) : judgment as ritual / Geoffrey Koziol -- 8. Women and ordeals / Belle Stoddard Tuten -- 9. Law and nonmarital sex in the Middle Ages / Henry Ansgar Kelly -- 10. Nastiness and wrong, rancor and reconciliation / Paul R. Hyams -- 11. The emergence of the crime : tort distinction in England / Charles Donahue, Jr. -- 12. Feuding in Viking-age Iceland's great village / Jesse L. Byock -- 13. Some reflections on violence, reconciliation, and the "feudal revolution" / Fredric L. Cheyette -- 14. Where conflict leads : on the present and future of medieval conflict studies in the United States / Warren C. Brown and Piotr Gorecki.

Now distributed by Brill for The Chinese University Press. Seven, diverse papers, written by ancient and medieval historians, are collected in this volume. These papers were presented at the academic conference "Politics and Religion in Ancient and Medieval Europe and Asia", organized by the Department of History and New Asia College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in March 1996. Although the papers vary widely in the region and time-span of coverage - from ancient Egypt, the early Roman Empire, Norman England, to medieval China, they have in common their concern about the relationship between politics and different religions - Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism and others - in ancient and medieval Europe and Asia, and the respective intellectual and cultural interactions. Professor Mu-chou Poo in his paper explores the ancient Egyptian attitudes toward foreigners and foreign culture as an effort to understand Egyptian culture from a new perspective, and as a preliminary attempt to probe into the issues concerning the nature of ancient ethnicity and cultural consciousness. Professor Yen-zen Tsai's paper looks into the way the early Roman Empire treated mystery cults under its rule. Professor Ming-chiu Lai discusses the impact of a Buddhist ritual on Chinese religious culture between the second and sixth centuries. Professor Chi-tim Lai in his paper argues that some Taoist teachings advocated a new world order, but they were not the real force that provoked the rebellions during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Professor Puay-peng Ho exhibits the political meanings of the imperial buildings in the Tang period and sheds light on the research about legitimacy in medieval China. Professor Warren Hollister's paper, which is also the keynote speech, points out that the high culture of twelfth century western Europe was largely the product of monastery. Finally, Professor Frederick Hok-ming Cheung examines the role of the Church in Anglo-Norman politics. The book will furnish a basis for further investigation on politics and religion in the ancient and medieval world, and inspire scholarly inquiries into the comparative dimensions of these important historical phenomena. This volume is distributed by Brill for The Chinese University Press