Research Catalog

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Description

1. xxx, 249 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. J. Allan Mitchell shows how the formation of the child expresses a manifold and mutable style of being. To be human is to learn to dwell among a welter of things. A searching and provocative historical inquiry into human becoming, the book presents a set of idiosyncratic essays on embryology and infancy, play and games, and manners, meals, and other messes. While it makes significant contributions to medieval scholarship on the body, family, and material culture, Becoming Human theorizes anew what might be called a medieval ecological imaginary. Mitchell examines a broad array of phenomenal objects--including medical diagrams, toy knights, tableware, conduct texts, dream visions, and scientific instruments--and in the process reanimates distinctly medieval ontologies. In addressing the emergence of the human in the later Middle Ages, Mitchell identifies areas where humanity remains at risk. In illuminating the past, he shines fresh light on our present"--

Subject

1. Human body > Social aspects > Europe > History > To 1500
2. Identity (Psychology) > Social aspects > Europe > History > To 1500
3. Families > Europe > History > To 1500
4. Human ecology > Europe > History > To 1500
5. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
6. Material culture > Europe > History > To 1500
7. Humanity > Social aspects > Europe > History > To 1500
8. PHILOSOPHY / General
9. Civilization, Medieval
10. Europe > Social life and customs
11. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
12. Children > Europe > History > To 1500

Contents

1. Being Born -- Childish Things -- The Mess -- Epilogue.

Call number

1. JFD 15-4260

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-235) and index.

Author

1. Mitchell, J. Allan (John Allan), 1971-

Title

1. Becoming human : the matter of the medieval child / J. Allan Mitchell.

Publisher

1. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-235) and index.

LCCN

1. 2013037982

Other standard identifier

1. 40023903863

ISBN

1. 9780816689965 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
2. 0816689962 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
3. 9780816689972 (paperback : acid-free paper)
4. 0816689970 (paperback : acid-free paper)

Research call number

1. JFD 15-4260