COPII ȘI ADOLESCENȚI ÎN BANATUL MEDIEVAL
CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS IN THE MEDIEVAL BANAT

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to analyze the essential aspects of childhood in the medieval Banat. Archeological, documentary, and linguistic sources were so used to offer samples or even to point out over 60 aspects of the medieval childhood. Details on births dynamics or life expectancy were found out by our analyses. Essential moments of life were so investigated: birth/ christening, engagement/ marriage, and death/ burying, as well as growth and carrying practices, feeding, and maladies and pains, or plays, education and work. Children’s juridical and social status was analyzed too, especially the vulnerable categories: young girls, bastards, and orphans. Children owning and tentative to dispossess theme were also took into consideration. Traumas the children suffered by violence or Ottoman captivity weren’t ignored too. In conclusion, the study shows that childhood existed in the medieval Banat, its natural (biological) status was taken into account, and it was integrated into a particular cultural and social context.

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