Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, C. 1400-1600
Merridee L. Bailey
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Description for Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, C. 1400-1600
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An investigation into a variety of texts providing guidance for teachers, parents, and children themselves. The question and procedures of integrating children into wider society during the medieval and early modern period are debated across a wide range of contemporary texts, in both print and manuscript form. This study takes as its focus the ways in which vernacular literature (including English courtesy poems, incunabula and sixteenth-century printed household books, grammar school statutes, and pedagogic books) provided a guide to socialising children. Theauthor examines how the transmission and reception of this literature, showing how patterns of thought changed during the ... Read more
An investigation into a variety of texts providing guidance for teachers, parents, and children themselves. The question and procedures of integrating children into wider society during the medieval and early modern period are debated across a wide range of contemporary texts, in both print and manuscript form. This study takes as its focus the ways in which vernacular literature (including English courtesy poems, incunabula and sixteenth-century printed household books, grammar school statutes, and pedagogic books) provided a guide to socialising children. Theauthor examines how the transmission and reception of this literature, showing how patterns of thought changed during the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
York Medieval Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
York, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903153420
SKU
V9781903153420
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Reviews for Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, C. 1400-1600
A very useable overview and well-thought-out interpretation of a large corpus of texts very important to the history of English literature and elite culture.
SPECULUM
This is an excellent continuation of the recent interest in the history of the child. ... A well-researched and solidly argued study.
MEDIAEVISTIK 26
Bailey's mastery of the didactic and proscriptive ... Read more
SPECULUM
This is an excellent continuation of the recent interest in the history of the child. ... A well-researched and solidly argued study.
MEDIAEVISTIK 26
Bailey's mastery of the didactic and proscriptive ... Read more