Title
Becoming Byzantine : children and childhood in Byzantium / edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou and Alice-Mary Talbot.
Imprint
Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.
Collation
330 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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Series
Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia
Bibliog.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Introduction: Homo Byzantinus in the making / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Observations on the legal status of children and the stages of childhood in Byzantium / Günther Prinzing -- Les variations du désir d'enfant à Byzance / Marie-Hélène Congourdeau -- Breastfeeding and weaning patterns in Byzantine times: evidence from human remains and written sources / Chryssi Bourbou and Sandra J. Garvie-Lok -- Emperors and patriarchs as ideal children and adolescents: literary conventions and cultural expectations / Dimiter G. Angelov -- Childhood in Byzantine saints' lives / Béatrice Chevallier Caseau -- The material culture of childhood in Byzantium / Brigitte Pitarakis -- Children in Byzantine monasteries: innocent hearts or vessels in the harbor of the devil? / Richard Greenfield -- The death and commemoration of Byzantine children / Alice-Mary Talbot.
Note
Gift of Dr. Gary Jason.
Language
In English; one essay in French.
ISBN
9780884023562 (alk. paper)
0884023567 (alk. paper)