Master-Servant Childhood: A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-47352-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 130 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 1855 g

Reihe: Palgrave Pivot

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryan, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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