IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 801: Children in the Medieval Village
Tuesday 8 July 2008, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past |
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| Organiser: | Dawn Hadley, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield |
| Moderator/Chair: | Mary Harlow, Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 801-a | Hide and Seek: Space and Play in the Medieval Village (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 801-b | Child Burials in the Medieval Village Churchyard (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Gender Studies |
| Paper 801-c | Secular Spaces for Dead Children in the Medieval Village (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Abstract | This session examines the archaeological evidence for children in the medieval English village. Children are routinely under-explored, if not ignored, in discussions of medieval rural life, and there have been few studies dedicated to this social group. The first paper explores the evidence for the spaces occupied by children in the village, while the second paper looks at the ways in which children were treated in death, with a view to understanding aspects of the social construction of medieval childhood. The final paper examines the special relationship between children and the household manifest in the occasional burial of infants in houses. |