Byzantine Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Byzantine Childhood write by Oana-Maria Cojocaru. This book was released on 2021-08-26. Byzantine Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in medieval Byzantium, children’s everyday experiences, and their agency. By piecing together a wide range of sources and utilising several methodological approaches inspired by intersectionality, history from below and microhistory, it analyses the life course of Byzantine boys and girls and how medieval Byzantine society perceived and treated them according to societal and cultural expectations surrounding age, gender, and status. Ultimately, it seeks to reconstruct a more plausible picture of the everyday life of children, one of the most vulnerable social groups throughout history and often a neglected subject in scholarship. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this book is necessary reading for scholars and students of Byzantine history, as well as those interested in the history of childhood and the family.
Becoming Byzantine
Becoming Byzantine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Becoming Byzantine write by Αριέττα Παπακωνσταντίνου. This book was released on 2009. Becoming Byzantine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium presents detailed information about children's lives, and provides a basis for further study. This collection of eight articles covers matters relevant to daily life such as the definition of children in Byzantine law, procreation, death, breastfeeding patterns, and material culture.
Images of Children in Byzantium
Images of Children in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Images of Children in Byzantium write by Cecily Hennessy. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Images of Children in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book covers a subject that has never previously been addressed, and yet it is both a fascinating and a provocative one: the representation of children in Byzantium. The visual material is extensive, intriguing and striking, and the historical context is crucially important to our understanding of Byzantine culture, social history and artistic output. The imagery explored is drawn from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries and encompasses media from manuscripts to mosaics and enamel. Part of the allure of this subject is that people do not associate childhood with Byzantium. Ernst Gombrich commented, 'who could find it easy, after a visit to Ravenna and its solemn mosaics, to think of noisy children in Byzantium?'. However, in Byzantium, patrons of art were often young, such as emperors who acceded to the throne as teenagers, and makers of art, sculptors, mosaicists, painters often began their training at an early age. How did this affect the creation, promotion and production of art? The study questions the definitions and perceptions of childhood, focusing on topics such as the family, saintly children and those associated with imperial power. Cecily Hennessy demonstrates that children are featured often in visual imagery and in key locations, indicating that they played a central role in Byzantine life, something which has previously been overlooked or ignored. In tackling this new subject she reveals important aspects of childhood, youth, and by extension adulthood in Byzantine society and raises issues that are also applicable to the present and to other historical contexts.
Coming of Age in Byzantium
Coming of Age in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coming of Age in Byzantium write by Despoina Ariantzi. This book was released on 2017-12-18. Coming of Age in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The various phases of life and their manifestations in theory and social reality constitute a well-established area of research in the fields of western medieval studies and ancient history. In this respect the Byzantine East has been widely neglected. This volume will focus on the Byzantine experience of adolescence, which may be defined as the biological transition from childhood to adulthood as well as the social and psychological experience of leaving the care of parents, guardians and family groups and the gradual integration into adult society. The contributions gathered therein treat seven subtopics that correspond to crucial questions in the current research on adolescence: the legal status of adolescents; the mechanisms of transition from childhood to adolescence; the socialisation and gradual integration into adult society; adolescents in Byzantine art; psychological aspects of adolescence from medieval to modern times; illnesses of adolescents; adolescents in the western medieval world.The focus is on the Middle and Late Byzantine Period, where historical, hagiographical,legal and medical sources offer rich material for an investigation of these aspects. The book contributes to a better understanding of all these questions and to show future trajectories for research.
Byzantine Art
Byzantine Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Byzantine Art write by Robin Cormack. This book was released on 2018. Byzantine Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Byzantine art, providing an introduction to the whole period and range of styles.
