Fosterage in medieval Ireland : an emotional history /
Fosterage was a central feature of medieval Irish society, yet the widespread practice of sending children to another family to be cared for until they reached adulthood is a surprisingly neglected topic. Where it has been discussed, fosterage is usually conceptualised and treated as a purely legal...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Early medieval North Atlantic.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- What is fosterage?
- An emotional history of fosterage
- Methodological approach
- The chapters
- 1. Cú Chulainn and Expressions of Foster Fatherhood
- Conchobur and the role of the maternal uncle
- The language of fosterage
- Multiple fosterage and emotions
- Foster fatherhood beyond infancy
- How many foster fathers is too many foster fathers?
- 2. Who Makes a Foster Sibling?
- Cú Chulainn, Conall Cernach and Finnchóem
- The fosterage in Alba
- Fer Diad, death and how to mourn
- Foster brotherhood: A lost idyll
- 3. Identity within Fosterage
- Holy brother, foster brother
- Fosterage and social standing
- Fíanna: Where everyone is a foster sibling?
- Creating foster identity
- 4. Fosterage in the Medieval Irish Church
- Ísucán
- The Christ Child elsewhere in Middle Irish
- Miraculous fosterage in saints' lives
- Monastic fosterage and oblation
- Divine metaphor and mortal practice
- 5. Animal Fosterage: A Bestial Parallel?
- St Ailbe and Cormac mac Airt
- Children gone to the dogs
- Relationships beyond suckling
- A permeable boundary between human and animal
- Becoming human
- Through an animal darkly
- Conclusion
- Drawing the chapters together
- Revisiting the methodology
- Bibliography
- Manuscript sources
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- About the Author
- Index
