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

9781452949529 (ebook) :

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

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A provocative historical inquiry into human becoming, this book consists of a set of idiosyncratic essays on embryology and infancy, play and games, manners, meals, and other messes. Inspecting a wide range of textual, visual, and artefactual evidence in and beyond mediaeval England, Mitchell argues that humanity issued from a dense material matrix that is barely human. Congeries of animate and inanimate objects expose the extent to which the human learned to dwell among a welter of things.

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May 05, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.