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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483327103321

Autore

Müller Miriam

Titolo

Childhood, Orphans and Underage Heirs in Medieval Rural England : Growing up in the Village / / by Miriam Müller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-03602-2

9783030036027

3030036022

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood, , 2634-6532

Disciplina

942.03

305.2309173409420902

Soggetti

Great Britain—History

Europe—History—476-1492

Childhood

Adolescence

Social history

Civilization—History

History of Britain and Ireland

History of Medieval Europe

Childhood, Adolescence and Society

Social History

Cultural History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Vulnerable Members of the Community -- Chapter 3: Inheritance, Rights and Goods -- Chapter 4: Looking after Underaged Heirs -- Chapter 5: Plotting out a Living -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450. Hit by major catastrophes – the Great Famine and then a few decades later the Black Death – this book examines how rural society coped with children left



orphaned, and land inherited by children and adolescents considered too young to run their holdings. Using manorial court rolls, accounts and other documents, Miriam Müller looks at the guardians who looked after the children, and the chattels and lands the children brought with them. This book considers not just rural concepts of childhood, and the training and schooling young peasants received, but also the nature of supportive kinship networks, family structures and the roles of lordship, to offer insights into the experience of childhood and adolescence in medieval villages more broadly. .