Author: Nicholas OrmePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Looks at the lives of children, from birth to adolescence, in medieval England.
Medieval Children
Author: Nicholas OrmePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Looks at the lives of children, from birth to adolescence, in medieval England.
Children in the Middle Ages
Author: Danièle Alexandre-BidonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780268023522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This vivid picture of how children lived and died portrays childhood at all levels of European mediaeval society - from the peasant girl who longed to read, to the apprentice scribe doodling pictures in the margins of the manuscript he copied, to the future Duke of Berry whose bedroom was redecorated twice a year, changing at Easter from red to green, the colour of Spring. The authors consider children's in the family and in social institutions, their emotional and educational environment, and their symbolism in Christianity. They demonstrate that, despite often difficult living conditions, the great majority of children were surrounded by family affection. They also illustrate the misery of orphaned and abandoned children, the ravages of disease and war, and the exploitation of children as slaves and beggars.
Kids Those Days: Children in Medieval Culture
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004458263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Kids Those Days is a collection of interdisciplinary research into medieval childhood. Contributors investigate abandonment and abuse, fosterage and guardianship, criminal behavior and child-rearing, child bishops and sainthood, disabilities and miracles, and a wide variety of other subjects related to medieval children.
Adventures in the Middle Ages
Author: Linda BaileyPublisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781550745405
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Join Josh, Emma and Libby as they go back to the Middle Ages.
Children in the Middle Ages
Author: Danièle Alexandre-BidonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
What can we know of the children of the Middle Ages? It is commonly thought that children were of little interest to medieval adults for documentation on childhood is supposedly rare and fragmentary. Daniele Alexandre-Bidon and Didier Lett challenge this assumption in this learned and lively book. Drawing from a wide range of sources -- from archaeological finds to romances from miracle accounts to law codes -- they bring together many glimpses of children in order to form a composite picture. By examining the existence of children in various contexts -- wars, epidemics, the famines that mark both the beginning and end of the Middle Ages -- the authors trace an evolution in the perception of childhood. Children in the Middle Ages offers a multifaceted image of medieval childhood in all the countries of present-day Europe and within all levels of medieval society, from the peasant girl who longed to read to the apprentice scribe doodling pictures on the margins of the manuscript he copied to the young duke of berry, whose bedroom was redecorated each year at Easter, going from red to green, the color of spring. The authors consider children not only within the context the family life, but within the supporting structures of the society -- in school, in business, in the monastery, in extened or foster families. They further demonstrate that despite often difficult living conditions, the great majority of children were surrounded with affection.
Fleas, Flies, and Friars
Author: Nicholas OrmePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464633
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at meals, hunt game, and even learn Latin and French. In Fleas, Flies, and Friars, Nicholas Orme, an expert on childhood in the Middle Ages, has gathered a wide variety of children’s verse that circulated in England beginning in the 1400s, providing a way for modern readers of all ages to experience the medieval world through the eyes of its children. In his delightful treasury of medieval children’s verse, Orme does a masterful job of recovering a lively and largely unknown tradition, preserving the playfulness of the originals while clearly explaining their meaning, significance, or context. Poems written in Latin or French have been translated into English, and Middle English has been modernized. Fleas, Flies, and Friars has five parts. The first two contain short lyrical pieces and fragments, together with excerpts from essays in verse that address childhood or were written for children. The third part presents poems for young people about behavior. The fourth contains three long stories and the fifth brings together verse relating to education and school life.
Medieval Literature for Children
Author: Daniel T. KlinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136531556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This volume will be a critical anthology of primary texts whose main audience was children and/or adolescents in the medieval period. Texts will include theoretical and interpretative introductions and commentary.
Children and Games in the Middle Ages
Author: Lynne ElliottPublisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780778713494
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Discusses the roles and activities of children of all ages in the Middle Ages.
Childhood in the Middle Ages
Author: Shulamith ShaharPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000924181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Drawing on a wide variety of European sources, Childhood in the Middle Ages (1992) examines attitudes towards children, images of childhood, and the concept of the stages of childhood in medieval culture, from the nobility to the peasantry. It makes fascinating and illuminating reading for anyone interested in the social and cultural history of medieval Europe as well as the history of child-rearing and education.
Aristotle's Children
Author: Richard E. RubensteinPublisher: HMH
ISBN: 054735097X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
A true account of a turning point in medieval history that shaped the modern world, from “a superb storyteller” and the author of When Jesus Became God (Los Angeles Times). Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten—until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. The philosopher’s ideas spread like wildfire across Europe, offering the scientific view that the natural world, including the soul of man, was a proper subject of study. The rediscovery of these ancient ideas would spark riots and heresy trials, cause major upheavals in the Catholic Church—and also set the stage for today’s rift between reason and religion. Aristotle’s Children transports us back to this pivotal moment in world history, rendering the controversies of the Middle Ages lively and accessible, and allowing us to understand the philosophical ideas that are fundamental to modern thought. “A superb storyteller who breathes new life into such fascinating figures as Peter Abelard, Albertus Magnus, St. Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Aristotle himself.” —Los Angeles Times “Rubenstein’s lively prose, his lucid insights and his crystal-clear historical analyses make this a first-rate study in the history of ideas.” —Publishers Weekly