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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Endorsements -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: on the history of childhood in the Middle Ages -- 1 The attitude to procreation and the image of the child in medieval culture -- 2 Stages in childhood -- 3 A child is born -- 4 Nursing -- 5 The first stage of childhood -- 6 Abandonment, infanticide, and accidents -- 7 Sickness, handicaps, bereavement, and orphanhood -- 8 On education in the second stage of childhood -- 9 Education for service in the secular church and in the monastery -- 10 Education in the nobility -- 11 Education in urban society -- 12 Education in the peasantry -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.

Evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. Moving on from the legacy of Ariès, these essays address evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. The contents include the idea of childhoodin the writing of Gregory of Tours, skaldic verse narratives and their implications for the understanding of kingship, Jewish communities of Northern Europe for whom children represented the continuity of a persecuted faith, children in the records of the northern Italian Humiliati, the meaning of romance narratives centred around the departure of the hero or heroine from the natal hearth, the age at which later medieval English youngsters left home, how far they travelled and where they went, literary sources revealing the politicisation of the idea of the child, and the response of young, affluent females to homiletic literature and the iconography of the virgin martyrs in the later middle ages. Contributors: FRANCES E. ANDREWS, HELEN COOPER, P.J.P.GOLDBERG, SIMCHA GOLDIN, EDWARD F. JAMES, JUDITH JESCH, KIM M. PHILLIPS, MIKE TYLER, ROSALYNN VOADEN.

This volume contains twelve essays that describe the writing of history in medieval Western Europe. Each chapter examines a type of subject matter about which medieval historians wrote, and discusses both the texts and the modern approaches to these texts. The authors include both historians and literary scholars. There are four chapters on early medieval historiography (universal history, national/ethnic history, institutional history, and biography/hagiography) and eight on later medieval historiography (the same four, plus dynastic, urban, contemporary, and legendary history). This comprehensive one-volume survey, in English, of medieval historiography can serve both as an introduction for students and the interested layperson, and as a handbook for the scholar

Queering Ovidian myth: bestiality and desire in Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea / Marilynn Desmond and Pamela Sheingorn -- Sodomy's mark: Alan of Lille, Jean de Meun, and the medieval theory of authorship / Susan Schibanoff -- The pose of the queer: Dante's gaze, Brunetto Latini's body / Michael Camille -- Response: presidential improprieties and medieval categories: the absurdity of heterosexuality / Karma Lochrie -- Sodomitic Moor: queerness in the narrative of Reconquista / Gregory S. Hutcheson -- Chaste subjects: gender, heroism, and desire in the Grail quest / Peggy McCracken -- The King's boyfriend: Froissart's political theatre of 1326 / Claire Sponsler -- Response: "Just like a woman": queer history, womanizing the body, and the boys in Arnaud's band / Francesc Canadé Sautman -- Translating the foreskin / Kathleen Biddick -- Shameful pleasures: up close and dirty with Chaucer, flesh and the word / Glenn Burger -- Ecce Homo / Garrett P.J. Epp -- Medieval/postmodern: HIV/AIDS and the temporality of crisis / Steven F. Kruger -- Response: Return of the repressed: the sequel / Larry Scanlon