Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Children in antiquity London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 (DLC) 2020026745 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lesley A Beaumont; Matthew Dillon; Nicola Harrington |
| ISBN: | 9781138780866 1138780863 |
| OCLC Number: | 1176316685 |
| Description: | xxxv, 619 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Investigating the ancient Mediterranean 'childscape' / Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon and Nicola Harrington -- The ancient Egyptian conception of children and childhood / Nicola Harrington -- What is a child in Aegean prehistory? / Anne P. Chapin -- Ideological constructions of childhood in Bronze and Early Iron Age Italy : personhood between marginality and social inclusion / Elisa Perego -- Defining childhood and youth. A regional approach to Archaic and Classical Greece : the case of Athens and Sparta / Lesley A. Beaumont -- The child in Etruscan Italy / Marjatta Nielsen -- Children and the Hellenistic period / Mark Golden -- Roman childhood revisited / Véronique Dasen -- From birth to rebirth : perceptions of childhood in Greco-Roman Egypt / Lissette M. Jiménez -- Looking for children in Late Antiquity / Geoffrey Nathan -- From village to monastery : finding children in the Coptic record from Egypt / Jennifer Cromwell -- The child's experience of daily life in ancient Egypt / Amandine Marshall -- Changing states : daily life of children in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece / Susan Langdon -- Children in early Rome and Latium / Sanna Lipkin and Eero Jarva -- Being a child in Archaic and Classical Greece / Robert S.J. Garland -- The daily life of Etruscan babies and children / Larissa Bonfante -- Being a child in the Hellenistic world. A subject out of proportion? / Christian Laes -- Different lives : children's daily experiences in the Roman world / Fanny Dolansky -- Children as instruments of policy in Hadrian's Egypt / Myrto Malouta -- Daily life of children in Late Antiquity -- play, work and vulnerability / Ville Vuolanto -- "Child in the nest" : children in Pharaonic Egyptian religion and rituals / Kasia Szpakowska -- Children and Aegean Bronze Age religion / Ute Günkel-Maschek -- Initiating children into Italian Bronze and Early Iron Age ritual, religion and cosmology / Erik van Rossenberg -- Children in Archaic and Classical Greek religion : Active and passive ritual agency / Matthew Dillon -- Children in Etruscan religion and ritual / Jean MacIntosh Turfa -- Children's roles in Hellenistic religion / Olympia Bobou -- Children in Roman religion and ritual / Janette McWilliam -- Children, religion and ritual in Greco-Roman Egypt / Ada Nifosi -- The child in Late Antique religion and ritual / Beatrice Caseau -- Child, infant and foetal burials in the Egyptian archaeological record : exploring cultural capacities from the Predynastic to Middle Kingdom Periods (ca.4400-1650 BC) / Ronika K. Power -- "Do not say 'I am young to be taken'" : children and death in ancient Egypt -- Second Intermediate Period to the Late Period / Jessica Kaiser -- Children and death in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece / Chrysanthi Gallou -- Children, death and society in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Sicily / Gillian Shepherd -- Children and death in Archaic and Classical Greece / Vicky Vlachou -- Infancy and childhood in funerary contexts of Early Iron Age Middle Tyrrhenian Italy : a comparative approach / Francesca Fulminante and Simon Stoddart -- Child death in the Hellenistic world / Nikolas Dimakis -- Death of a Roman child / Hugh Lindsay -- Death of a child : demographic and preparation trends of juvenile burials in the Graeco-Roman Fayoum / Kerry Muhlestein and R. Paul Evans -- Infant mortality, Michael Psellos, and the Byzantine demon Gillo / Lynda Garland -- The bioarchaeology of children in Greco-Roman antiquity / Kathryn E. Marklein and Sherry C. Fox -- Infancy and childhood in Roman Egypt : bioarchaeological perspectives / Sandra M. Wheeler, Lana Williams and Tosha L. Dupras -- "The greatest of treasures" : advances in the bioarchaeology of Byzantine children / Chryssi Bourbou. |
| Series Title: | Rewriting antiquity. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon and Nicola Harrington. |
Abstract:
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
"I applaud the editors of this volume! They have successfully put a spotlight on the importance of studying the roles children played in the ancient world. Through this new lens, they show that innovative observations can be made concerning ancient religion, funerary practices, the family, women and gender, and the value systems of ancient societies. In addition to covering a range of Mediterranean time periods and cultures, the editors provide us with essays that investigate a single time period from different angles; the reader will thereby be able to acquire the most holistic understanding of the subject possible. Perhaps most precious of all, these essays show that studying children can offer rather moving glimpses of the lived emotions of ancient individuals." - Susan Lupack, Macquarie University, Australia"Childhood in Antiquity is the most broadly based study of ancient Mediterranean children to date, employing the most diverse set of sources to understand them. It is the most chronologically and geographically diverse set of essays about children from the ancient Mediterranean, and is a very useful and broad contribution to the study of ancient children."- John H. Oakley, The College of William and Mary, USA"This informative volume, immersive in range and depth, represents a stellar effort to synthesize and advance our knowledge of ancient childhood in the eastern Mediterranean. Its emphasis on variability in the experience, conceptualization and representation of childhood, its cross-cultural perspectives, and its attention to both certainties and gaps in our understanding are salutary. Lucid and engaging, all essays offer glimpses into distinct but interrelated sets of issues and will stimulate scholarly interest and further research." - Ada Cohen, Dartmouth College, USA"The editors should be warmly congratulated on bringing together stimulating and innovative contributions, from so many leading and emergent scholars researching childhood in the past... Particular strengths of the volume are its explorations of children's agency, its focus upon the experiences of children and the attempts of many of its chapters to access children's perspectives, represented as they typically are through the lens of adult perceptions in archaeological, iconographic, literary and epigraphic records... A successful structure makes the volume easy and efficient to use, and excellent cross-referencing between chapters regularly flags up other relevant material. Ultimately, the volume presents a commendable alternative to works focusing on one theme, methodological approach or region, and it goes some way to addressing lacunae of research on certain periods and areas. It effectively juxtaposes evaluation of areas subjected to minimal previous investigation with those that have well-established sub-disciplines, to highlight where future work needs to be focused to improve our understanding of the many ways childhood could be perceived and experienced in antiquity... The chronological, geographical and typological range that Children in Antiquity covers surely means that it offers something to every scholar with an interest in ancient childhoods and children's experiences in the past." - The Classical Review Read more...
