Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-322) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Susan Irvine and Winfried Rudolf -- Childhood and adolescence: interdisciplinary approaches to the archaeological and documentary evidence / Sally Crawford -- Naming children in Anglo-Saxon England: ethnic identity and cultural change / Leonard Neidorf -- Anglo-Saxon preaching on children / Winfried Rudolf -- Tender beginnings in the Exeter Book Riddles / Shu-Han Luo -- Parenting and childhood in The fortunes of men / Stacy S. Klein -- Children and the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum / Andreas Lemke -- Childhood in the lives of Anglo-Saxon saints / Joyce Hill -- Alcuin's educational dispute: the riddle of teaching and the teaching of riddles / Andy Orchard -- Foster-relationships in the Old English Boethius / Susan Irvine -- Hrothulf's childhood and Beowulf's: a comparison / Richard North -- Of boys and men: Anglo-Saxon literary adaptations of the Book of Daniel / Daniel Anlezark -- "Sharper than a serpent's tooth": parent-child litigation in Anglo-Saxon England / Andrew Rabin.
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