IMC 2005: Sessions

Session 208: Children, Youth, and the Church in the Middle Ages

Organiser:	Poul Martin Ploug Pedersen, Centre for Late Antiquity, University of Manchester
Moderator/Chair:	Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston, Texas
Paper 208-a	The Pious Education of the Young in the Late Medieval Church (Language: English) Viktor Aldrin, Department of Religious Studies & Theology, Göteborgs Universitet Index terms: Social History, Teaching the Middle Ages
Paper 208-b	Age in the Narratives of Saints' Lives (Language: English) Poul Martin Ploug Pedersen, Centre for Late Antiquity, University of Manchester Index terms: Hagiography, Learning (The Classical Inheritance)
Paper 208-c	Children's Rights and Obligations in Medieval Scandinavia (Language: English) Bertil Nilsson, Department of Religious Studies, Theology & Classical Philology, Göteborgs Universitet Index terms: Canon Law, Social History
Abstract	This session will investigate the various ways in which concepts of ages - in particular that of youth - comes out in the written sources of the middle ages. In its effort to show how age as a concept took form and was used in various ways, this in various types of sources, the combined outlook of the session's papers cover children´s rights and obligation as gauged in provincial laws of the high middle ages, the pious behaviour of the young in education as described in medieval exempla-stories, and the uses of age in the narratives of saints' Lives.