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Editor

• Ariantzi, Despoina [Browse]

Funder

• FWF [Browse]
• FWF [Browse]

• FWF [Browse]

Series

• Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies [More in this series]
• Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies ; 69 [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Funding information

funded by FWF

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)

Rights and reproductions note

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Language note

English.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments / Ariantzi, Despoina
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Approaches to Byzantine Adolescence (6th-11th centuries) / Ariantzi, Despoina
• Too Young to Be Accountable: Is 15 Years Old a Threshold in Byzantium? / Caseau, Béatrice
• Adoleszenten in der kirchlichen Rechtsprechung der Byzantiner im Zeitraum 13.-15. Jahrhundert / Prinzing, Günter
• The Adolescent Monastic in Middle and Late Byzantium / Talbot, Alice-Mary
• Adolescence in the Late Byzantine Society (14th-15th centuries) / Kiousopoulou, Tonia
• Adolescent Behavior in Byzantine Sources? Some Observations on Young Byzantine Women Pursuing their Goals / Melichar, Petra
• Soziale Identitätsbildung im Jugendalter in Byzanz / Ariantzi, Despoina
• Images of Byzantine Adolescents / Brubaker, Leslie
• Representations and Roles of Adolescence with a Focus on Apocryphal Imagery / Hennessy, Cecily
• The Byzantine Adolescent: Real or Imaginary? / Galatariotou, Catia
• Erwachsenwerden oder Erwachsensein? / Sirsch, Ulrike
• Jugendliche und Heilung / Pratsch, Thomas
• Adolescentia in abendländischen Quellen des frühen Mittelalters zwischen Kindheit und Erwachsensein? Ein begriffsgeschichtlicher Zugang / Goetz, Hans-Werner
• List of Contributors
• Index

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ISBN

3-11-057649-X

OCLC

1024011122

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