P. Ryan

Gebundenes Buch

Master-Servant Childhood

A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture

Beschreibung

An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.

Autor

Patrick Ryan is Associate Professor of Childhood and Social Institutions at Kings University College at Western University, Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK / Palgrave Pivot / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-36478-4
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781137364784
• ISBN-10: 1137364785
• Artikelnr.: 38606529

Rezensionen

"Ryan's Master-Servant Childhood promises to stimulate further investigation into the historiography and analysis of medieval childhood and to initiate broader discussion among historians and cultural critics alike." - Daniel T. Kline, Associate Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, USA