Centuries of childhood a social history of family life /
Theme is the emergence of the modern conception of family life and the modern image of the nature of children. Until the end of the Middle Ages the child was, almost as soon as he was weaned, regarded as a small adult, who mingled, competed, worked, and played with mature adults.
| Uniform Title: | Enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Régime. English |
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| Main Author: | Ariès, Philippe. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Published: |
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
1962.
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| Physical Description: |
447 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series: |
Vintage book.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The Idea of childhood
- Ages of life
- Discovery of childhood
- Children's dress
- Modest contribution to the history of games and pastimes
- From immodesty to innocence
- Conclusion: Two concepts of childhood
- Scholastic life
- Medieval scholars young and old
- New institution: the college
- Origins of the school class
- Pupil's age
- Progress of discipline
- From day-school to boarding-school
- The 'Little schools'
- Roughness of schoolchildren
- Conclusion: School and the duration of childhood
- Family
- Pictures of the family
- From the medieval family to the modern family
- Conclusion: Family and sociability.