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Master-servant childhood : a history of the idea of childhood in medieval English culture

Ryan, Patrick Joseph, author

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\"Master-Servant Childhood\" offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order. It challenges the misnomer that children were 'little adults' in the Middle Ages and corrects the prevalent misconceptions that childhood was unimportant, unrecognized or disregarded. The book argues for the value of studying childhood as a structure of thought and feeling and as an important avenue for exploring large scale historical changes in our sense of what it is to be and become human.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Children England History To 1500. / Children England Social conditions. / Children England Social life and customs. / Social history Medieval, 500-1500. / England Social conditions 1066-1485.
• ISBN: 1137364785, 9781137364784

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HQ792.E54 R93 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE