Centuries of childhood
Subtitle: a social history of family life
By: translated from the French by Robert Baldick.
Series: A Vintage book -- V-286.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Children -- France.; Family -- France.
Description: Theme is the emergence of the modern conception of family life and the modern image of the nature of children. Until the end of the Middle Ages the child was, almost as soon as he was weaned, regarded as a small adult, who mingled, competed, worked, and played with mature adults.
Notes: Translation of : L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Régime.

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