Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child.
- Author / Editor
- Mitchell, J. Allan
Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child.
- Published
- Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- xxx, 249 pp.
- Description
- Studies the ontogeny (rather than ontology) of medieval western humanness, focusing on gestation, birth, childhood, and the social and cultural coming-into-being of the child. Links various aspects of "posthumanist, ecological, and materialist thought," and locates medieval antecedents to postmodern questions and theories of humanness and becoming. Examines a variety of medieval objects and texts, with particular attention to Middle English poetry, including discussion of "literary miniaturization" and childishness in Th and PrT; toys and science in Astr, and the dining etiquette and cultural materialization of the Franklin's "table dormant" (GP 1.353).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Tale of Sir Thopas
Prioress and Her Tale
Franklin and His Tale
Treatise on the Astrolabe