by Philippe Ariès
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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