Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 3
6. 1. Childhood and Adolescence: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Archaeological and Documentary Evidence 15
7. 2. Naming Children in Anglo-Saxon England: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Change 32
8. 3. Anglo-Saxon Preaching on Children 48
9. 4. Tender Beginnings in the Exeter Book Riddles 71
10. 5. Parenting and Childhood in The Fortunes of Men 95
11. 6. Children and the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 120
12. 7. Childhood in the Lives of Anglo-Saxon Saints 139
13. 8. Alcuin’s Educational Dispute: The Riddle of Teaching and the Teaching of Riddles 162
14. 9. Foster-Relationships in the Old English Boethius 202
15. 10. Hrothulf’s Childhood and Beowulf’s: A Comparison 222
16. 11. Of Boys and Men: Anglo-Saxon Literary Adaptations of the Book of Daniel 244
17. 12. “Sharper than a Serpent’s Tooth”: Parent-Child Litigation in Anglo-Saxon England 270
18. Bibliography 291
19. Contributors 323
20. Index 325