Medieval Children
Nicholas Orme
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Description for Medieval Children
paperback. What was childhood like for mediaeval boys and girls in England? Nicholas Orme draws on a vast range of sources to create a picture of childhood in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 172 x 22. Weight in Grams: 656.
What was childhood like for medieval boys and girls in England? How were children named and brought up, what hazards faced them, what games did they play, and how were they prepared for adulthood? This richly detailed book provides for the first time a complete history of childhood in England from about the year 1000 to the sixteenth century.
Leading medieval historian Nicholas Orme draws together a vast range of sources and disciplines—history, literature, religion, and art—to create a picture of medieval childhood more comprehensive than ever before. Beginning with pregnancy and childbirth, Orme explores the succeeding stages ... Read more
What was childhood like for medieval boys and girls in England? How were children named and brought up, what hazards faced them, what games did they play, and how were they prepared for adulthood? This richly detailed book provides for the first time a complete history of childhood in England from about the year 1000 to the sixteenth century.
Leading medieval historian Nicholas Orme draws together a vast range of sources and disciplines—history, literature, religion, and art—to create a picture of medieval childhood more comprehensive than ever before. Beginning with pregnancy and childbirth, Orme explores the succeeding stages ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300097542
SKU
V9780300097542
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Nicholas Orme
Nicholas Orme is professor of history at Exeter University. He is coauthor of The English Hospital, 1070-1570 (ISBN 0 300 06058 0, [pound]40.00*), published by Yale University Press.
Reviews for Medieval Children
“Nicholas Orme’s stimulating piece of historical revisionism. . . . is one of these pleasingly, absorbingly digressive books. . . . A book whose subject is of inexhaustible interest.”—Michael Glover, Financial Times “What the book identifies again and again in medieval England is an attentiveness to children. . . . Orme is a clear and persuasive guide to the ... Read more