Growing up in medieval London : the experience of childhood in history / / Barbara A. Hanawalt

• Autore: Hanawalt Barbara A. <1941->
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 305.23/09421/2
• Soggetto topico: Children - England - London - History; City and town life - England - London; Social history - Medieval, 500-1500; Youth - England - London - History
• Note generali: Bibliography : p267-279). Includes index.; Previously issued in print: 1993.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Approaches to Studying Childhood and Youth -- Sources for Studying Childhood and Youth -- The Historical Context -- 2. The Material Environment of London's Youth -- Housing -- Neighborhoods: Streets, Parishes, and Wards -- The Larger City: Forays Outside the Neighborhood -- The Material Standard of Living -- 3. Birth and Baptism: Membership in a Social and Spiritual Network -- Birth and Baptism -- Thomas Seint John Imagined -- 4. The Fragile Years of Childhood -- Survivors and Nonsurvivors of Childhood -- A Child of the Parish -- The First Seven Years -- 5. Childrearing, Training, and Education -- The Daily Routine -- Games and Play -- A Schoolboy Who Aspired to Be Episcopus Puerorum -- Schooling -- Moral Behavior and Its Goals -- 6. Orphans and Their Upbringing -- Laws on Orphans and Guardians -- The Age and Condition of Orphans -- The Guardians -- Alison, the Bastard Heiress -- Abuses of Wards and Orphans -- Disruptions of Wardship -- Caxton's Puzzle Revisited -- 7. Life on the Threshold of Adolescence -- Social Puberty and Biological Puberty -- Adolescent Games -- Joan Rawlyns of Alderham -- Sexual Initiation -- Riot and Misrule -- 8. Entering into Apprenticeship -- Establishment of Apprenticeship -- Ceremonies of Initiation -- Female Apprentices -- Profile of the Apprentice Population -- An Italian Traveler Leads Twentieth-Century Historians Astray, or the Lasting Importance of the Natal Family and Friends -- William Bothe, Mercers' Apprentice -- 9. Relationships Between Masters and Apprentices -- Faults of Masters -- Rebellious Apprentices -- William Raynold and Thomas Appleford, Apprentices, Versus Richard Berne, Mercer and Master -- Friendship Between Masters and Apprentices -- 10. Servants -- Formation of the Service Contract -- Who Became a Servant? -- Living Arrangements. ; Expected Relations Between Master or Mistress and Servant -- The Reality of Relationships Between Master and Servant -- Servant Murders Master -- Leisure and Relationships with Other Servants -- Journeymen -- 11. On Becoming Sad and Wise -- Age of Exit from Adolescence -- Ceremonies for Coming of Age -- Other Experiences that Induced Sadness and Wiseness -- John Borell, Who Tried to Live Happily Ever After as a Sad and Wise Man -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: This vivid account of growing up in former times attempts to dispel the folkloric myths that claim that childhood and adolescence did not exist in the Middle Ages. In these pages, the reader meets London's children and adolescents at play and work in their homes, parishes, schools and streets.
• Titolo autorizzato: Growing up in medieval London
• ISBN: 0-19-771361-0; 0-19-987997-4; 9786613113382; 1-283-11338-4; 0-19-977188-X; 0-585-34631-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819349103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.