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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.
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"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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Patrick Ryan is Associate Professor of Childhood and Social Institutions at Kings University College at Western University, Canada.
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Book Title: Master-Servant Childhood
Book Subtitle: A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture
Authors: Patrick Joseph Ryan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137364791
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-36478-4Published: 13 June 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-36479-1Published: 13 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 130
Topics: Children, Youth and Family Policy, History of Medieval Europe, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Family, Historical Linguistics, Politics of the Welfare State