Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life
Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life The modern concept of family life is traced through the paintings and diaries of the last four centuries Full description
Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life The modern concept of family life is traced through the paintings and diaries of the last four centuries Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394702865 (0394702867)
Publish date: July 12th 1965
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Reference,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Culture,
Family,
Sociology,
Cultural Studies,
European History
I can't remember when I first picked up this book, but it's one that made a deep impression on me because back in my teens I had little appreciation for how deeply alien the past can be. This book is a "reply to this question on the modernity of the idea of the family" and so a history of childhood,...
Aries examines the evolution of conceptions of children and family life. Using a variety of sources, including art and diaries, he argues that children were not seen as different in nature from adults until well after the Middle Ages, and that as the separation of children from adults increased the ...
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