Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family LifeTheme 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. |
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... festivals . They took place on fixed dates of the calendar , and their programmes , broadly speaking , followed traditional patterns . They have been studied only by experts on folklore or popular traditions , who give the impression ...
... festivals . They took place on fixed dates of the calendar , and their programmes , broadly speaking , followed traditional patterns . They have been studied only by experts on folklore or popular traditions , who give the impression ...
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... festivals : Twelfth Night , Shrove Tuesday , the November festivals . For a long time it was customary , especially among women , to wear a mask to go out . The well - born were fond of having their portraits painted in their favourite ...
... festivals : Twelfth Night , Shrove Tuesday , the November festivals . For a long time it was customary , especially among women , to wear a mask to go out . The well - born were fond of having their portraits painted in their favourite ...
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... festivals which were often pagan rather than Christian . From the fifteenth century on , as we have already seen ... festivals , for all that they had become festivals of childhood in religious iconography , could no longer play this ...
... festivals which were often pagan rather than Christian . From the fifteenth century on , as we have already seen ... festivals , for all that they had become festivals of childhood in religious iconography , could no longer play this ...
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academy adolescence adults already ancien regime apprenticeship arts authority became become beginning boarders boarding-school boys Cardinal d'Estouteville character child common Cordier corresponded cycle Dainville dancing day-boys depicted discipline dress early eighteenth century engraving father festivals fifteenth fifth class France French girls grammar schools hand henceforth Heroard iconography idea Jacqueline Pascal Jesuit Jesuit college Latin school little schools living longer Louis Louis XIII lower classes manuals of etiquette masters medieval Middle Ages Mme de Sévigné modern moral moralists nineteenth century Oratorians painting parents Paris parlour games pedagogica pedagogues Père de Dainville played Port-Royal portrait precocity punishment pupils putto reformation religious remained rhetoric class robe Sainte-Barbe scene scholars scholastic schoolboys servants seventeenth century sixteenth century social society statutes studies taught teaching theme Thomas Platter took town traditional tuition University of Paris writing young youth