Childhood in Medieval Poland (1050-1300): Constructions and Realities in a European Context

Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Chapter 1 Introduction
	1 Historiographical Context
	2 Description of Contents
Chapter 2 Child and Hero: The Use of Childhood in the Narrative of Gallus Anonymus
	1 Who Was Gallus? New Approaches to the Deeds of the Princes of the Poles
	2 Childhood as a Time of Development and Prophecy
	3 Age Terminology and Dynastic Status: When Is a Man a Man?
	4 Vulnerability and Care: From Parents and the Community
	5 Motherly Care and Female Children
	6 Comparisons: Cosmas of Prague
	7 Conclusions
Chapter 3 Vincent Kadłubek and Thinking with Children
	1 Vincent’s Overlap with Gallus
	2 Parental Love of Children … and the Virtue of Violating It
	3 Filial and Familial Piety
	4 Childishness, a Negative Stereotype Applied to Rulers
	5 Prophecy and Children
	6 Child(hood) as a Rhetorical Device
	7 Conclusions
Chapter 4 The Henryków Book: The Weight of Future Children and the Threat of Youth
	1 The Text and Its Purpose
	2 Youth as Part of Dynasty and Potential Threat
	3 How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down: What Is a Responsible Age?
	4 “Kids These Days”: Disappointment in the Next Generation
	5 Memory and Youth, a New Kind of Remembrance in Poland
	6 The Care for Children
	7 Conclusions
Chapter 5 Children and Childhood in Hagiography
	1 Are Good Children Serious Children?
	2 Education Issues: Nature vs. Nurture, God as Teacher, Male vs. Female
	3 Precious or Burdensome? Children Three Years and Younger
	4 Children, Childhood, and Descendants in the Canonization Story of St. Stanisław
	5 The Miracles
	6 Latin Words Relating to Children in the Miracula: Exceptions and Rules
	7 Conclusions
Chapter 6 The Child in the Community of the Dead
	1 Incidence of Child Burials
	2 The Problem of Grave Goods in Child Burials
	3 Multiple Burials
	4 Spatial Features of Child Burials
	5 In Search of Pattern: Micro vs. Macro Comparisons
	6 Age, Sex, and Grave Goods
	7 Final Thoughts
Chapter 7 Conclusions and Comparisons
	1 The Child as Symbol of the Future, Prophecy
	2 Born Great or Achieving Greatness?
	3 Age and Social Categories
	4 Special Care for Children
	5 Children and Emotion
	6 Good Kid, Bad Kid
	7 Thinking with Children
	8 Children in a Wider Context
Appendix
Bibliography
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects