The Premodern Teenager: Youth In Society, 1150 1650
ISBN:
9780772720184 (0772720185)
Edition language: English
This is a fascinating look at the conception and meaning of adolescence in the middle ages. Although the word "teenager" is of modern coinage, the concept of a middle time, between childhood and full adulthood, is not new, at all. The essays in this book look at who was considered to be in this limi...