Master-Servant Childhood

A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

An interdisciplinary synthesis that 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-06-13
Mått:140 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:130
Upplaga:2013
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137364784

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Patrick Ryan is Associate Professor of Childhood and Social Institutions at Kings University College at Western University, Canada.

Recensioner i media

"Ryan's Master-Servant Childhood promises to stimulate further investigation into the historiography and analysis of medieval childhood and to initiate broader discussion among historians and cultural critics alike." - Daniel T. Kline, Associate Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, USA

Innehållsförteckning

1. Husbands, Wives, and the Language of Patriarchy 2. Boys, Girls, and the Practices of Servitude 3. Childhood Without Adulthood 4. Age, Generation, and the Logic of Correspondence 5. The Master-Servant Sense of Being in Time