Военная история / Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean

Название: Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean
Авторы: Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon, Nicola Harrington
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2021
Страниц: 657
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 121 MB

With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child’s life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study.