Master-Servant Childhood [electronic resource] : A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture /
Ryan, P.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Wickbergâ€?s Door: Childhood and Structures of Thought                                                           ""; ""1 Husbands, Wives and the Language of Patriarchy                                                       ""; ""2 Boys, Girls and the Practices of Servitude                                                   ""; ""3 Childhood Without Adulthood                                    ""
""4 Generation, Age and the Logic of Correspondence                                                        """"5 The Master-Servant Sense of Being in Time                                                  ""; ""Select Bibliography                          ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Social policy.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Social groups.
Family.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Historical linguistics.
Welfare state.
Children, Youth and Family Policy.
History of Medieval Europe.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Family.
Historical Linguistics.
Politics of the Welfare State.