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Barbara A. Hanawalt

Growing Up in Medieval London

The Experience of Childhood in History

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Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, literary sources, and books of advice, Barbara Hanawalt weaves a rich tapestry of the lives of the common children of medieval London during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Much of what she finds is eye opening. She shows for example that contrary to the belief of some historians medieval adults recognized and paid close attention to the various stages of childhood and adolescence. For instance, wardship cases reveal that London laws granted orphans greater protection than do our own contemporary courts. And with her innovative narrative style, Hanawalt brings medieval c… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-509384-1
  • EAN: 9780195093841
  • Produktnummer: 17629932
  • Verlag: Oxford Academic
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
  • Seitenangabe: 318 S.
  • Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.5 cm x D1.5 cm 273 g
  • Abbildungen: line drawings
  • Gewicht: 273

Über den Autor


Barbara Hanawalt is author of The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (1986, OUP), Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348 (1979, Harvard UP).

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