Becoming Byzantine Paperback by Arietta Papaconstantinou

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (2014-03-11)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 344 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780884023982
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Despite increased interest over the last fifty years in childhood in Byzantium, the bibliography on this topic remains rather short and generalized. 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 drawn from a May 2006 Dumbarton Oaks symposium covers matters relevant to daily life such as the definition of children in Byzantine law, procreation, death, breastfeeding patterns, and material culture. Religious and political perspectives are also used to examine Byzantine views of the ideal child, and the abuse of children in monasteries. Many of these articles present the first comprehensive accounts of specific aspects of childhood in Byzantium.

About the Author

Arietta Papaconstantinou is a Reader in Ancient History in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading.

Alice-Mary Talbot was Director of Byzantine Studies, Emerita, at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the inaugural editor of the medieval Greek series of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.

Dimiter Angelov is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University.

Richard P. H. Greenfield is Professor of History at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.