TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,J.Allan
TI  - Becoming human: the matter of the medieval child 
SN  - 1452941564
AV  - HQ792.E8 M58 2014
U1  - 306.85094090/01 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Children
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Humanity
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Human body
KW  - Families
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Medieval
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Children's Studies
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Being Born -- Childish Things -- The Mess -- Epilogue
N2  - "Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. J. Allan Mitchell shows how the formation of the child expresses a manifold and mutable style of being. To be human is to learn to dwell among a welter of things. A searching and provocative historical inquiry into human becoming, the book presents a set of idiosyncratic essays on embryology and infancy, play and games, and manners, meals, and other messes. While it makes significant contributions to medieval scholarship on the body, family, and material culture, Becoming Human theorizes anew what might be called a medieval ecological imaginary. Mitchell examines a broad array of phenomenal objects--including medical diagrams, toy knights, tableware, conduct texts, dream visions, and scientific instruments--and in the process reanimates distinctly medieval ontologies. In addressing the emergence of the human in the later Middle Ages, Mitchell identifies areas where humanity remains at risk. In illuminating the past, he shines fresh light on our present"--
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt6wr7k9
ER  -