Growing Up in Medieval London

Growing Up in Medieval London
Author: Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 1995-02-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195093844

Details what childhood was like in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century London, discussing the importance of education and providing narratives of individual children.

Growing Up in Medieval London

Growing Up in Medieval London
Author: Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1995-02-23
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780195093841

Details what childhood was like in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century London, discussing the importance of education and providing narratives of individual children.

Medieval Children

Medieval Children
Author: Nicholas Orme
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300097542

Looks at the lives of children, from birth to adolescence, in medieval England.

Everyday Life in Medieval London

Everyday Life in Medieval London
Author: Toni Mount
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2014-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1445615649

Step back in time to medieval London to find out about the lives of those working and living there.

The Ties that Bound

The Ties that Bound
Author: Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195045642

Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peasants coped with such problems as providing for the newborn and the aged, controlling premarital sex, and alleviating the harshness of their material environment in many ways correspond with our twentieth-century solutions. Using a remarkable array of sources, including over 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths, Hanawalt emphasizes the continuity of the nuclear family from the middle ages into the modern period by exploring the reasons that families served as the basic unit of society and the economy. Providing such fascinating details as a citation of an incantation against rats, evidence of the hierarchy of bread consumption, and descriptions of the games people played, her study illustrates the flexibility of the family and its capacity to adapt to radical changes in society. She notes that even the terrible population reduction that resulted from the Black Death did not substantially alter the basic nature of the family.

Juvenile Justice

Juvenile Justice
Author: Preston Elrod
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780763733070

Thoroughly updated and revised, the Second Edition of Juvenile Justice: A Social, Historical, and Legal Perspective, offers readers a comprehensive volume on how the juvenile justice system works. This book is designed to help readers understand the complexities of the present juvenile justice system by presenting a thorough examination of the social, historical, and legal context within which delinquency and juvenile justice occurs. In addition to gaining valuable knowledge on the juvenile justice process, readers will learn how the different parts of the process are interrelated, how decisions made in one case influence future cases, and the laws that direct juvenile justice policy.

Medieval Bodies

Medieval Bodies
Author: Jack Hartnell
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 178283270X

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process. Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.

A History of Childhood

A History of Childhood
Author: Colin Heywood
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1509525386

Colin Heywood's classic account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War combines a long-run historical perspective with a broad geographical spread. This new, comprehensively updated edition incorporates the findings of the most recent research, and in particular revises and expands the sections on theoretical developments in the 'new social studies of childhood', on medieval conceptions of the child, on parenting and on children’s literature. Rather than merely narrating their experiences from the perspectives of adults, Heywood incorporates children’s testimonies, 'looking up' as well as 'down'. Paying careful attention to elements of continuity as well as change, he tells a story of astonishing material improvement for the lives of children in advanced societies, while showing how the business of preparing for adulthood became more and more complicated and fraught with emotional difficulties. Rich with evocative details of everyday life, and providing the most concise and readable synthesis of the literature available, Heywood's book will be indispensable to all those interested in the study of childhood.

The Middle Ages

The Middle Ages
Author: Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0195103599

Beginning with the merger of Roman, Christian, and Germanic cultures, this history of the Middle Ages covers a vast array of subjects, including Byzantium and the Islamic world, feudalism, the Crusades, the Magna Carta, and much more. Author Barbara A. Hanawalt uses a lively and anecdotal writing style to breathe life into earlier times. 35 color and 120 b & w illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.