Medieval Life Cycles: Continuity and Change - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 2503540694 ISBN 13 : 9782503540696

Editeur : Brepols N.V., 2013

Synopsis

The essays in this collection present new research into a variety of questions on birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, and old age, ordered in a more or less chronological manner according to the lifecycle. The volume exposes attitudes and representations of the lifecycle from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the Middle Ages as being full of inconsistencies as well as definitive categories, and of variation and stasis. This attests to the fact that medieval conceptions and representations of the stages of life and their interrelationships are much more nuanced and less idealized than is usually credited. Medieval conceptual, mental, artistic, cultural, and sociological processes are scrutinized using various approaches and methods that cross disciplinary boundaries. What is emphasized across the volume is that there were varying, context-dependent rhythms of continuity and change in every stage of life in the medieval period. The volume's selection of authors is international in scope and represents some of the leading current scholarship in the field.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Frederick S. Paxton is Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor of History at Connecticut College, in New London, CT, USA. He is the author of Christianizing Death: The Making of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe (1990), Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony: the Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim (2009) and numerous articles and essays on sickness, death, dying and the dead in medieval Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brepols N.V.
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 2503540694
• ISBN 13: 9782503540696
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 377
• Éditeur: Cochelin Isabelle, Smyth Karen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible