Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child

by J. Allan Mitchell

Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. J. Allan Mitchell shows how the formation of the child expresses a manifold and mutable style of being. To be human is to learn to dwell among a welter of things.

A searching and provocative historical inquiry into human becoming, the book presents a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816689970
• ISBN13: 9780816689972
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.9"