Growing Up in Medieval London by Barbara A Hanawalt

Growing Up in Medieval London by Barbara A Hanawalt

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Summary

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.

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Growing Up in Medieval London by Barbara A Hanawalt

Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, coroner's rolls, literary sources, and books of advice, this book weaves a rich tapestry of the life of London children during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Barbara A. Hanawalt is an expert in medieval social history in England. Hanawalt has a long list of publications in scholarly journals and collections of essays. Crime and Community in Medieval England, 1300-1348 (1979), The Bonds That Bind: Peasant Families in Medieval England (1986), Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History (1993), Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Regulation in Medieval England (1999), and The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and the Economy in Late Medieval London (2007) are some of her writings. She also published seven volumes of articles on a variety of issues in medieval studies.

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ISBN 13 9780195084054
ISBN 10 0195084055
Title Growing Up in Medieval London
Author Barbara A Hanawalt
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Year published 1993-11-18
Number of pages 317
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.