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Children in Antiquity

Author : Lesley A. Beaumont,Matthew Dillon,Nicola Harrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134870752

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Children in Antiquity by Lesley A. Beaumont,Matthew Dillon,Nicola Harrington Pdf

This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child’s life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study. Children in Antiquity provides an invaluable and unrivalled resource for anyone working on all aspects of the lives and deaths of children in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household

Author : Kristine Garroway
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068954

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Children in the Ancient Near Eastern Household by Kristine Garroway Pdf

Children were an important part of the ancient Near Eastern household. This idea seems straightforward, but it can be understood in many ways. On a basic level, children are necessary for the perpetuation of a household. On a deeper level, the definitions of child and member of the household are far from categorical. This book begins to explore the multiple definitions of child and the way the child fits within a household. It examines what membership in the household looks like for children and what factors contribute to it. A study addressing what a child is and how a child’s gender and social status affect her place in the household is vital to a proper understanding of the ancient Near Eastern household. Despite their importance, children have long been marginalized in discussions of ancient societies. Only recently has this trend begun to change within biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholarship. A recent wave of studies, especially in relation to the Hebrew Bible, has started to address children in their own right. In light of the current state of scholarship on children, the purpose of this book is threefold. First, Garroway continues to fill out the picture of the child in the ancient Near East by compiling child-centric texts and archaeological realia. In analyzing these materials, she surveys the relationship between children and ancient Near Eastern society by examining the extent to which structuring forces in a community, such as social status and gender, contribute to the process of a child’s becoming a member of his household and society. Finally, this information provides a base for future research, for example, a cross-cultural study of children in the ancient Near East in Classical Antiquity.

Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World

Author : Christian Laes,Ville Vuolanto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317175513

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Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World by Christian Laes,Ville Vuolanto Pdf

Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World explores what it meant to be a child in the Roman world - what were children’s concerns, interests and beliefs - and whether we can find traces of children’s own cultures. By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children lived, their experience of everyday life, and what the limits were for their agency. The volume brings together scholars of archaeology and material culture, classicists, ancient historians, theologians, and scholars of early Christianity and Judaism, all of whom have long been involved in the study of the social and cultural history of children. The topics discussed include children's living environments; clothing; childhood care; social relations; leisure and play; health and disability; upbringing and schooling; and children's experiences of death. While the main focus of the volume is on Late Antiquity its coverage begins with the early Roman Empire, and extends to the early ninth century CE. The result is the first book-length scrutiny of the agency and experience of pre-modern children.

Children in the Roman Empire

Author : Christian Laes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521897464

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Children in the Roman Empire by Christian Laes Pdf

This book illuminates the lives of the 'forgotten' children of ancient Rome and draws parallels and contrasts with contemporary society.

Childhood in History

Author : Reidar Aasgaard,Cornelia B. Horn,Oana Maria Cojocaru
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Children
ISBN : 1472468929

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Childhood in History by Reidar Aasgaard,Cornelia B. Horn,Oana Maria Cojocaru Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Front cover -- Biographical notes -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Roots of character and flowers of virtues: a philosophy of childhood in Plato's Republic -- 3 Aristotle on children and childhood -- 4 Roman conceptions of childhood: the modes of family commemoration and academic prescription -- 5 Greco-Roman paediatrics -- 6 Ancient Jewish traditions: Moses's infancy and the remaking of biblical Miriam in antiquity -- 7 Slave children in the first-century Jesus movement -- 8 Aspects of childhood in second- and third-century Christianity: the case of Clement of Alexandria -- 9 Children and childhood in Neoplatonism -- 10 Childhood in 400 CE : Jerome, John Chrysostom, and Augustine on children and their formation -- 11 Children in Oriental Christian and Greek hagiography from the early Byzantine world (ca. 400-800 CE) -- 12 "Pour out the blood and remove the evil from him": the creation of a ritual of birth ('aqīqa) in Islam in the eighth century -- 13 Conceptions of children and youth in Carolingian capitularies -- 14 Children and youth in monastic life: Western Europe 400-1250 CE -- 15 Childhood in middle and late Byzantium: ninth to fifteenth centuries -- 16 New perspectives on parent-child relationships in early Europe: Jewish legal views from the High Middle Ages -- 17 Voci puerili : children in Dante's Divine Comedy -- 18 Viking childhood -- 19 Reactions to the death of infants and children in premodern Muslim societies: children in Marʻi Ibn Yusuf's plague and consolation treatises -- 20 Perceptions of children in medieval England -- Bibliography -- Index

War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals)

Author : John Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317810292

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War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals) by John Evans Pdf

J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans’ investigation ranges from Cicero’s wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall. War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of antiquity but also to sociologists and anthropologists, while it will similarly prove an indispensable reference work for historians of women and the family.

Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy

Author : Ada Cohen,Jeremy B. Rutter
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780876615416

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Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy by Ada Cohen,Jeremy B. Rutter Pdf

This volume contains 20 papers that explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity.

Children and Family in Late Antiquity

Author : Christian Laes,Katariina Mustakallio,Ville Vuolanto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Children
ISBN : 9042931353

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Children and Family in Late Antiquity by Christian Laes,Katariina Mustakallio,Ville Vuolanto Pdf

This volume continues the series of five previous Roman Family publications, and puts special focus on social history and living conditions in the familial contexts. It concentrates on three interlinked aspects of family life and interaction: liminal situations regarding demography and ecological factors that lay down the framework for family life, liminal conditions on the edges of familial life regarding child labour, child slaves and sexual attitudes towards children, and local traditions which confront us with people and cultures at the borders of the Roman Empire. By focusing on three recurring points of departure (Late Antiquity, children and childhood, and the encounter between various cultures), and by presenting a wide variety of methodological approaches (from rhetorical analysis of discourses to statistical analysis, and from experiential life stories to iconographic analysis), the present volume offers a view on the status quaestionis of Roman family studies, and widens the thematic points of departure for the study of the Roman family, thus hopefully pointing to fruitful directions for further studies.

The Dark Side of Childhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Author : Katariina Mustakallio,Christian Laes
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 1842174177

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The Dark Side of Childhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Katariina Mustakallio,Christian Laes Pdf

This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world. The authors investigate the long-term attitudes of people, as well as ruptures in habits and customs. The book is divided into three parts. "Unwanted" deals with parents who were unable to bring up their baby and handed it over to other people or the cruel whims of destiny. "Disabled" addresses what we would label as children's illnesses since disability was a concept largely unknown to ancient people. "Nearly Lost" examines demons, viewed as destructive forces with the ability to destroy children or young people, sometimes by literally sucking their lives away. The articles are written by an international team of specialists from Belgium, Finland, Italy and the United States and were presented at conferences organised by the research project "Religion and Childhood. Socialisation from the Roman Empire to Christian World", funded by the Academy of Finland (2009-2012, directed by Dr. Katariina Mustakallio), at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Coming of Age in Ancient Greece

Author : Stephen John Morewitz,Jenifer Neils,John Howard Oakley,Katherine Hart,Lesley A. Beaumont
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300099607

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Coming of Age in Ancient Greece by Stephen John Morewitz,Jenifer Neils,John Howard Oakley,Katherine Hart,Lesley A. Beaumont Pdf

What was childhood like in ancient Greece? What activities and games did Greek children embrace? How were they schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites of passage were key to their development? These fascinating questions and many more are answered in this groundbreaking book--the first English-language study to feature and discuss imagery and artifacts relating to childhood in ancient Greece.Coming of Age in Ancient Greece shows that the Greeks were the first culture to represent children and their activities naturalistically in their art. Here we learn about depictions of children in myth as well as life, from infancy to adolescence. This beautifully illustrated book features such archaeological artifacts as toys and gaming pieces alongside images of them in use by children on ancient vases, coins, terracotta figurines, bronze and stone sculpture, and marble grave monuments. Essays by eminent scholars in the fields of Greek social history, literature, archaeology, anthropology, and art history discuss a wide range of topics, including the burgeoning role of childhood studies in interdisciplinary studies; the status of children in Greek culture; the evolution of attitudes toward children from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period as documented by literature and art; the relationships of fathers and sons and mothers and daughters; and the roles of cult practice and death in a child's existence.This delightful book illuminates what is most universal and specific about childhood in ancient Greece and examines childhood's effects on Greek life and culture, the foundation on which Western civilization has been based.

Children and Childhood in Classical Athens

Author : Mark Golden
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421416854

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Children and Childhood in Classical Athens by Mark Golden Pdf

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Mark Golden’s groundbreaking study of childhood in ancient Greece. First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athens. Drawing on literary, artistic, and archaeological sources as well as on comparative studies of family history, Mark Golden offers a vivid portrait of the public and private lives of children from about 500 to 300 B.C. Golden discusses how the Athenians viewed children and childhood, describes everyday activities of children at home and in the community, and explores the differences in the social lives of boys and girls. He details the complex bonds among children, parents, siblings, and household slaves, and he shows how a growing child’s changing roles often led to conflict between the demands of family and the demands of community. In this thoroughly revised edition, Golden places particular emphasis on the problem of identifying change over time and the relationship of children to adults. He also explores three dominant topics in the recent historiography of childhood: the agency of children, the archaeology of childhood, and representations of children in art. The book includes a completely new final chapter, text and notes rewritten throughout to incorporate evidence and scholarship that has appeared over the past twenty-five years, and an index of ancient sources.

Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity

Author : Sabine R. Hübner,David M. Ratzan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139475334

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Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity by Sabine R. Hübner,David M. Ratzan Pdf

As the changes in the traditional family accelerated toward the end of the twentieth century, a great deal of attention came to focus on fathers, both modern and ancient. While academics and politicians alike singled out the conspicuous and growing absence of the modern father as a crucial factor affecting contemporary family and social dynamics, ancient historians and classicists have rarely explored ancient father-absence, despite the likelihood that nearly a third of all children in the ancient Mediterranean world were fatherless before they turned fifteen. The proportion of children raised by single mothers, relatives, step-parents, or others was thus at least as high in antiquity as it is today. This book assesses the wide-ranging impact high levels of chronic father-absence had on the cultures, politics, and families of the ancient world.

The Daily Life of a Roman Family in the Ancient Times - Ancient History Books for Kids | Children's Ancient History

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541920620

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The Daily Life of a Roman Family in the Ancient Times - Ancient History Books for Kids | Children's Ancient History by Baby Professor Pdf

If you open this book, you will discover how living in the Ancient Roman times and today are worlds apart. Everything is very different, including the way people dress, talk and even entertain themselves. Societies were different as well as governments. Looking back into the past will lead to a deeper appreciation of the present and that’s why history matters. Grab this book today!

Children, Childhood and Society

Author : Sally Elizabeth Ellen Crawford,Gillian B. Shepherd
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015070949105

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Children, Childhood and Society by Sally Elizabeth Ellen Crawford,Gillian B. Shepherd Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume gathers together papers on the history and archaeology of childhood with a wide geographical and chronological remit.

Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece

Author : Corinne Ondine Pache
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0252029291

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Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece by Corinne Ondine Pache Pdf

"Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece is the first systematic study of the considerable number of Greek babies and children who became enduring myths, objects of worship, and the recipients of sacrifice." "Examining literary, pictorial, and numismatic representations, Pache opens up a vast territory once occupied by children such as Charila, Opheltes, Melikertes, and the children of Hercules and Medea. She argues that the stories, songs, and sanctuaries honoring these heroes express parental fears and guilt about children's death."--Jacket.