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Author Shahar, Shulamith.

Title Childhood in the Middle Ages / Shulamith Shahar
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1990

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 MELB  305.230940902 S525C  AVAILABLE
Description x, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction : on the history of childhood in the Middle Ages -- The attitude to procreation and the image of the child in medieval culture -- A child is born -- Nursing -- The first stage of childhood -- Abandonment, infanticide, and accidents -- Sickness, handicaps, bereavement, and orphanhood -- On education in the second stage of childhood -- Education for service in the secular church and in the monastery -- Education in the nobility -- Education in urban society -- Education in the peasantry
Analysis Europe Children Social life, 1100-1453
Notes Issued in Hebrew as: Yaldut bi-Yeme-ha-benayim
Translated by Chaya Galai
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-333) and index
Notes Issued in Hebrew as: Yaldut bi-Yeme-ha-benayim
Subject Children -- Europe -- History.
Education, Medieval -- Europe.
Education, Medieval -- Europe -- History.
Education, Medieval.
Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
Child Rearing -- history.
Education -- history.
LC no. 89006227
ISBN 0415026245
0415073294 (paperback)
Other Titles Yaldut bi-Yeme-ha-benayim. English