Coming of Age in Byzantium: Adolescence and Society

by Despoina Ariantzi (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110576603
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	12/18/2017
Series:	Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies , #69
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	316
Sales rank:	528,826
File size:	105 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Despoina Ariantzi, University of Vienna, Austria.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Approaches to Byzantine Adolescence (6^th-11^th centuries) Despoina Ariantzi 1

Too Young to Be Accountable: Is 15 Years Old a Threshold in Byzantium? Béatrice Caseau 19

Adoleszenten in der kirchlichen Rechtsprechung der Byzantiner im Zeitraum 13.-15. Jahrhundert Günter Prinzing 29

The Adolescent Monastic in Middle and Late Byzantium Alice-Mary Talbot 83

Adolescence in the Late Byzantine Society (14^th-15^th centuries) Tonia Kiousopoulou 99

Adolescent Behavior in Byzantine Sources? Some Observations on Young Byzantine Women Pursuing their Goals Petra Melichar 105

Soziale Identitätsbildung im Jugendalter in Byzanz Despoina Ariantzi 117

Images of Byzantine Adolescents Leslie Brubaker 141

Representations and Roles of Adolescence with a Focus on Apocryphal Imagery Cecily Hennessy 175

The Byzantine Adolescent: Real or Imaginary? Catia Galatariotou 203

Erwachsenwerden oder Erwachsensein? Ausgewählte Aspekte zu Jugend, "Emerging Adulthood" und jungem Erwachsenenalteraus Sicht der Entwicklungspsychologie Ulrike Sirsch 215

Jugendliche und Heitung Thomas Pratsch 237

Adolescentia in abendländischen Quellen des frühen Mittelalters zwischen Kindheit und Erwachsensein? Ein begriffsgeschichtlicher Zugang Hans-Werner Goetz 251

List of Contributors 295

Index 297

Editorial Reviews

"[...] this volume provides an important and accessible discussion of a concept that has remained largely neglected in the social history of the Byzantine world. These articles will no doubt stimulate further research into Byzantine adolescence and form an excellent resource both for those specifically interested in childhood and adolescence as well as in Byzantine society more broadly."
Grace Stafford in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.08.09

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