D. M. Hadley - Medieval Childhood: Archaeological Approaches

Childhood in the Past Monograph Series

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Volume 3: Medieval Childhood: Archaeological Approaches
edited by D. M. Hadley and K. A. Hemer

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Contents

D. M. Hadley and K. A. Hemer

Sally Crawford

Mark A. Hall

Sally V. Smith

Maureen Mellor

Elizabeth Craig-Atkins

Kirsty E. Squires

K. A. Hemer

Carenza Lewis

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Elizabeth Craig-Atkins is Lecturer in Human Osteology at the University of Sheffield. Her research has explored the character and provision of early Christian funerary practices, health, disease and disability in the past from both biological and social perspectives, and the skeletal analysis of populations from, in particular, the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods. Her recent publications on these themes include: Chest burial: a middle Anglo-Saxon funerary rite from northern England. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 31 (3), 31737 (2012); Investigating social status using evidence of biological status: a case study from Raunds Furnells (with J. Buckberry), pp. 12842 in Buckberry, J. and Cherryson, A. (eds), Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England, c. 6501100 AD. Oxford: Oxbow (2010); and The diagnosis and context of a facial deformity from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Spofforth, North Yorkshire (with G. Craig). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (forthcoming).

Sally Crawford, FSA, is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, and previously taught medieval archaeology at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests include the archaeology of childhood, and medieval attitudes to health, disease and disability. Her publications include: Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England. Stroud: Sutton (1999); Children, Childhood and Society (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1696) (ed. with G. Shepherd). Oxford: Archaeopress; and Bodies of Knowledge: cultural interpretations of illness and medicine in medieval Europe (British Archaeological Reports International Series 2170, ed. with C. Lee). Oxford: Archaeopress.

D. M. Hadley, FSA, is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, and her research interests span aspects of early medieval identities relating to gender, ethnicity, social status and life cycle. Her publications include: Masculinity in Medieval Europe (ed.). London: Longman (1999); The Vikings in England: settlement, society and culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press (2006); Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns: social approaches to towns in England and Ireland, c. 8001100 (ed. with A. Ten Harkel). Oxford: Oxbow (2013); Burying the socially and physically distinctive in and beyond the Anglo-Saxon churchyard, pp. 10113 in Buckberry, J. and Cherryson, A. (eds), Burial in later Anglo-Saxon England, c. 6501100 AD. Oxford: Oxbow (2010); and Microcosms of migration: children and early medieval population movement (with K. A. Hemer). Childhood in the Past 4, 6378 (2011). She is also the editor (with S. Crawford and G. Shepherd) of the Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

Mark A. Hall is History Officer at Perth Museum and Art Gallery, principally responsible for the curation of the archaeology collections, which notably include the medieval excavation assemblages from Perth. His publications include Playtime in Pictland: the material culture of gaming in early medieval Scotland, Rosemarkie: Groam House Museum (2007); The Lewis hoard of gaming pieces: a re-examination of their context, meanings, discovery and manufacture (with D. Caldwell and C. Wilkinson). Medieval Archaeology 53, 155203 (2009); Playtime: the material culture of gaming in medieval Scotland, pp. 14568 in Cowan, T. and Henderson, L. (eds), A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland 10001600. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2011); Making the past present: cinematic narratives of the Middle Ages, pp. 489512 in Gilchrist, R. and Reynolds, A. (eds), Reflections: 50 Years of Medieval Archaeology, 19572007. Leeds: Maney (2009).

K. A. Hemer is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield. With a focus on early medieval western Britain, her research sees the integration of archaeological, historical, and funerary evidence with stable isotope data for diet and population mobility. Her publications include; Evidence of early medieval trade and migration between Wales and the Mediterranean Sea region (with J. A. Evans, C. A, Chenery and A. L. Lamb). Journal of Archaeological Science 40, 23529 (2013); A bioarchaeological study of the human remains from the early medieval cemetery of Cronk Keeillane, Isle of Man.