Byzantine Childhood: Representations and Experiences of Children in Middle Byzantine Society
Author:   Oana-Maria Cojocaru
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367332112


Pages:   250
Publication Date:   27 August 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Oana-Maria Cojocaru
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367332112


ISBN 10:   0367332116
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   27 August 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction 1. Conceptions of childhood 2. The social and physical world of Byzantine children 3. How it all starts: the first years of Byzantine children’s lives 4. Growing up in a Byzantine Family: socialization in the domestic sphere 5. The child in the church: constructing religious identity 6. Life in the human hive: family networks and the social life of the household 7. The monastic-to-be: life within monastery walls 8. Through the eyes of children: two narratives of Byzantine children’s everyday life Conclusions

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Oana-Maria Cojocaru is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Umeå, Sweden, where she is conducting a project on disabled children in Byzantium. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Oslo, where she was part of the international project ‘Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe’. She has taught about perceptions and conceptions of childhood in the Middle Ages and shared her research on the everyday life experiences of Byzantine children in talks and publications. She is co-editor of Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (Routledge 2018).

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