The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit

Rose A. Sawyer

doi:10.1017/9781800109285

The Medieval Changeling

Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit

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Rose A. Sawyer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: June 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781800109285
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800109285

Subjects:: Literature, Sociology: General Interest, European and World Literature: General Interest, Sociology

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The first comprehensive study of medieval changelings and associated attitudes to the health and care of children in the period.

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Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of Illustrations
pp viii-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiii

Note on Terminology
pp xiv-xiv

List of Abbreviations
pp xv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-14

Part I - Study
pp 15-16

1 - Health and Changelings
pp 17-64

2 - Care of Changelings
pp 65-106

3 - Neglecting the Baby
pp 107-140

Conclusion
pp 141-146

Part II - Manuscript and Visual Sources
pp 147-148

Corpus of Non-Hagiographic Changeling Sources
pp 149-152

Corpus of Hagiographic Changeling Sources
pp 153-186

Notes to the Corpus of Hagiographic Changeling Sources
pp 187-194

Part III - Edited Texts and Translations
pp 195-195

Notkers Commentary on Psalm 17, verse 46
pp 196-197

Saint Stephen
pp 198-215

Saint Bartholomew
pp 216-223

Saint Lawrence
pp 224-228

Bibliography
pp 229-246

Index
pp 247-253

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