TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ryan,Patrick Joseph
TI  - Master-servant childhood: a history of the idea of childhood in medieval English culture 
T2  - Palgrave pivot
SN  - 9781137364784 
AV  - HQ 792 .E54 R9
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Children
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Social history
KW  - Medieval, 500-1500
KW  - 1066-1485
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Wickberg's door : childhood and structures of thought -- Husbands, wives and the language of patriarchy -- Boys, girls and the practices of servitude  -- Childhood without adulthood -- Generation, age and the logic of correspondence  -- The master-servant sense of being in time
N2  - "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
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