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Master-Servant Childhood: A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture 2013th Edition
Author(s): P. Ryan (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
- Publication Date: 13 Jun. 2013
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 138 pages
- ISBN-10: 1137364785
- ISBN-13: 9781137364784
Book 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"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
About the Author
Patrick Ryan is Associate Professor of Childhood and Social Institutions at Kings University College at Western University, Canada.
