Master-Servant Childhood: A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Master-Servant Childhood: A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture
By (Author) P. Ryan
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Pivot
13th June 2013
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Social welfare and social services
European history: medieval period, middle ages
Sociology: family and relationships
Historical and comparative linguistics
307.76
Physical Properties
Hardback
130
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
2814g
Description
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.
Reviews
"Ryan's Master-Servant Childhood promises to stimulate further investigation into the historiography and analysis of medieval childhood and to initiate broader discussion among historians and cultural critics alike." - Daniel T. Kline, Associate Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Author Bio
Patrick Ryan is Associate Professor of Childhood and Social Institutions at Kings University College at Western University, Canada.
