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.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: P. RyanEAN: 9781137364784COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 2814 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2013-06-13CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & FamilyWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
CE period up to c 1500, Historical and comparative linguistics, Age groups: children, Social theory, History and Archaeology
"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
Patrick Ryan is Associate Professor of Childhood and Social Institutions at Kings University College at Western University, Canada.
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.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: P. RyanEAN: 9781137364784COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 2814 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2013-06-13CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & FamilyWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
CE period up to c 1500, Historical and comparative linguistics, Age groups: children, Social theory, History and Archaeology
