Machine generated contents note: 1. Archaeology and the Life Course -- 1.1. The life course: archaeology on a human scale -- 1.2. Embodiment and ritual -- 1.3. Biography and agency -- 1.4. Time and memory -- 1.5. The medieval `extended life course' -- 1.6. Sources and scales of analysis -- 2. Experiencing Age: the Medieval Body -- 2.1. Humoral theory and the Ages of Man -- 2.2.`Temporal biology': experiencing medieval age -- 2.3. Osteobiography: the materiality of the body -- 2.4. Medieval `osteobiographies': from infancy to old age -- 3. Clothing the Body: Age, Sexuality and Transitional Rites -- 3.1.`Social skins': medieval clothing -- 3.2. Constructing difference: age and identity -- 3.3. Rites de passages: marking life course transitions -- 3.4. Shaping the body: sexuality and social order -- 3.5.Coming of Age: seasonal rites and courting -- 4. The Medieval Household: the Material Culture of Everyday Life -- 4.1. Materiality and domesticity -- 4.2. Marriage and other lifestyles Note continued: 4.3. Conception and birth: the material practices of motherhood -- 4.4. The family: growing up and growing old -- 4.5. Domestic devotion: care for the body and soul -- 5. The Medieval Church and Cemetery: The Quick and the Dead -- 5.1. Performing piety -- 5.2. The imagery of the parish church: life and afterlife -- 5.3. Life course rituals: transforming the body -- 5.4. Living with the dead -- 5.5. Burial: the journey to the afterlife -- 6. Medieval Lives: People and Things -- 6.1. What did medieval objects do? -- 6.2.`Animating' objects: the person/object boundary -- 6.3. Metaphors and materials: `special deposits' in medieval buildings -- 6.4. Heirlooms and `curated' objects -- 6.5. Materiality: connecting the biographies of people and things.
Summary:
The aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived - how people were born and grew old, how they dressed, how they inhabited their homes, the rituals that gave meaning to their lives and how they prepared for death and the afterlife.
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