Medieval childhood : archaeological approaches /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Hadley, D. M. (Dawn M.), 1967- (Author, Editor), Hemer, K. A. (Katie A.) (Author, Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Series:	Childhood in the past monograph series ; v. 3.
Subjects:	Children > Europe > History > To 1500. Children > Europe > Social conditions. Europe > Antiquities. Europe > Social conditions > To 1492. Social history > Medieval, 500-1500. Middle Ages.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: archaeological approaches to medieval childhood, c. 500-1500 / D. M. Hadley and K. A. Hemer
Archaeology of the medieval family / Sally Crawford
"Merely players": playtime, material culture and medieval childhood / Mark A. Hall
The spaces of late medieval peasant childhood: children and social reproduction / Sally V. Smith
Seeing the medieval child: evidence from household and craft / Maureen Mellor
Eavesdropping on short lives: eaves-drip burial and the differential treatment of children one year of age and under in early Christian cemeteries / Elizabeth Craig-Atkins
Through the flames of the pyre: the continuing search for Anglo-Saxon infants and children / Kirsty E. Squires
Are we nearly there yet? Children and migration in early medieval western Britain / K. A. Hemer
Interdisciplinarity, archaeology and the study of medieval childhood / Carenza Lewis.