IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1023: Not for Children Only: Play and Pleasure in the Middle Ages
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Annika Hüsing, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
| Paper 1023-a | Children's Play in Medieval Towns (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Education, Social History, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 1023-b | Children's Play and Educational Concepts in the High Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Education, Science, Social History |
| Paper 1023-c | Humour in the Game of Kings: The Sideways Glancing Warden of the Lewis Chessmen (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - General, Daily Life, Religious Life |
| Abstract | 'Play takes many forms, but the heart of play is pleasure - an important component in learning'. Internationally renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Bruce D. Perry coined this phrase to summarize modern findings on the role of play for children's brain development. But what was the Middle Ages' view on playing? In three different papers this session wants to explore children's and adults' forms of play in rural areas and towns, possible visual manifestations of pleasure in the context of play and contemporary views on the subject as found in 13th-century pedagogical tracts. |