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Mar 23, 2014 · But a few hundred years ago northern Europe took a particularly harsh line, sending children away to live and work in someone else's home. Not surprisingly, the children didn't always like it.
Nov 24, 2018 · Despite possible accidents or cruel masters, household chores, and time away from home, childhood in the Middle Ages was not a dour time. Children were encouraged to play, and adults ensured that they got the opportunity. Archaeologists have discovered everything from toy knights and horses, to tiny cooking pots and pans.
Mar 27, 2014 · Bailey argues that late medieval and early modern English parents and guardians were quite concerned with the proper socialising of their children, and, while manners and deportment remained constant over the period, the meaning and goals of these manners changed.
- Katherine L. French
- 2014
Medieval childhood was a rich and varied state, since children varied from one another as much as adults did. It differed chiefly from modern western society in its mortality and in the fact that many young people started serious work at an earlier age.
- Concept of Childhood
- Concept of Adolescence
- Importance of Children
- Question of Affection
- Further Reading
One of the most frequently mentioned arguments for the non-existence of childhood in the Middle Ages is that representative of children in medieval artwork depicts them in adult clothing. If they wore grown-up clothes, the theory goes, they must have been expected to behave like grown-ups. However, while there certainly isn't a great deal of mediev...
The idea that adolescencewas not recognized as a category of development separate from both childhood and adulthood is a more subtle distinction. The primary evidence concerning this outlook is the lack of any term for the modern-day word "adolescence." If they didn't have a word for it, they didn't comprehend it as a stage in life. This argument a...
There is a general perception that, in the Middle Ages, children were not valued by their families or by society as a whole. Perhaps no time in history has sentimentalized infants, toddlers, and waifs as has modern culture, but it doesn't necessarily follow that children were undervalued in earlier times. In part, a lack of representation in mediev...
Few aspects of life in the Middle Agescan be more difficult to determine than the nature and depth of the emotional attachments made among family members. It is perhaps natural for us to assume that in a society that placed a high value on its younger members, most parents loved their children. Biology alone would suggest a bond between a child and...
If you are interested in the topic of childhood in medieval times, Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History by Barbara A. Hanawalt, Medieval Children by Nicholas Orme, Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages by Joseph Gies and Frances Gies and The Ties that Bound by Barbara Hanawalt may be good reads for you.
- Melissa Snell
Jan 3, 2013 · Certainly, the ideal childhood of today’s middle class in the US or Europe, did not exist during the Middle Ages. Sources that describe what child rearing was like are all over the map, in terms of the degree of care, love, maternal obligations, and how long childhood lasted.
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Feb 25, 2014 · At first, historians focused on the attitude of medieval society toward children and on whether “childhood” was regarded as a separate and particular stage in the life course. More recently, research has also broadened to include perspectives on a medieval child’s own experiences of childhood.
