Byzantine Childhood

Representations and Experiences of Children in Middle Byzantine Society

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Oana-Maria Cojocaru

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Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies

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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.

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Oana-Maria Cojocaru is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Umeå, Sweden, where she is conducting a project on disabled children in Byzantium. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Oslo, where she was part of the international project ‘Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe’. She has taught about perceptions and conceptions of childhood in the Middle Ages and shared her research on the everyday life experiences of Byzantine children in talks and publications. She is co-editor of Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (Routledge 2018).

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August 27th, 2021

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Oana-Maria Cojocaru

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General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

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2 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white

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250

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Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies

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9780367332112

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34688199

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