Screen LibraryMaster-Servant childhood A history of the idea of childhood in Medieval English culture /
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.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137364791 |
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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. "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. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137364784. |
| Carrier Form: | 140 p. |
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9781137364784 9781137364791 : 1137364793 : |
| CLC: | C912.81 |
| Contents: | 1. Husbands, Wives, and the Language of Patriarchy 2. Boys, Girls, and the Practices of Servitude 3. Childhood Without Adulthood 4. Age, Generation, and the Logic of Correspondence 5. The Master-Servant Sense of Being in Time. |