| Description |
ix, 308 p. : ill. |
| Series |
The Northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 42 |
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Northern world ; v. 42.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The challenges of quantifying youth and age in the medieval North / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- Forever young : child burial in Anglo-Saxon England / Christina Lee -- Constructions of early childhood at the syncretic cemetery of Fjälkinge : a case study / Lotta Mejsholm -- Child burials and children's status in medieval Norway / Berit J. Sellevold -- Fosterage and dependency in medieval Iceland and its significance in Gísla Saga / Anna Hansen -- The birth, childhood and adolescence of the early Icelandic bishops / Bernadine McCreesh -- 'Sveinn einn ungr fell i syruker' : medieval Icelandic children in vernacular miracle stories / Joanna A. Skórzewska -- Teenage angst : the structures and boundaries of adolescence in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Nic Percivall -- Awkward adolescents : male maturation in old Norse literature / Carolyne Larrington -- 'Spoiling them rotten?' : grandmothers and familial identity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland / Philadelphia Ricketts -- Age matters in Old English literature / Jordi Sánchez-Martí -- Becoming 'old', ageism and taking care of the elderly in Iceland c. 900-1300 / Jon Viar Sigursson -- Old age in Viking-age Britain / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- The patriarch : myth and reality / Armann Jakobsson -- Egill Skalla-Grímsson : a Viking poet as a child and an old man / Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir Yershova. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Youth -- Europe, Northern -- History.
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Older people -- Europe, Northern -- History.
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Europe, Northern -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lewis-Simpson, Shannon.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789004170735 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9004170731 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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