Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, c. 1400-1600

Author:   Merridee L. Bailey
Publisher:   York Medieval Press
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9781903153420


Pages:   284
Publication Date:   15 November 2012
Format:   Hardback
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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 period for parents, teachers, and young people alike; and places children and family reading networks into the context of debates on the history of childhood, and the history of the book. Merridee L. Bailey is a social and cultural historian of late medieval and early modern England. She is an Associate Member of the Facultyof History, University of Oxford.

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Author:   Merridee L. Bailey
Publisher:   York Medieval Press
Imprint:   York Medieval Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781903153420


ISBN 10:   1903153425
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   15 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Courtesy Poems Readers Virtue and Vice Sixteenth-Century Books The School Conclusion Appendix A: English Vernacular Courtesy Poems Appendix B: Incunabula Appendix C: Sixteenth-Century Books Appendix D: Educational Sources Bibliography Index

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An important study of continuities and shifts in the literature that shaped children and attitudes toward children and young people in Late Medieval and sixteenth-century England. CHILDHOOD IN THE PAST, vol. 6, no. 2, September 2013 (M)akes a number of significant contributions to the existing historiography. (...) a well-researched and thoughtfully argued monograph which I hope receives significant attention from social and cultural historians of late medieval and early modern England. REVIEWS IN HISTORY


(M)akes a number of significant contributions to the existing historiography. (...) a well-researched and thoughtfully argued monograph which I hope receives significant attention from social and cultural historians of late medieval and early modern England. REVIEWS IN HISTORY


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 texts she has studied is exhaustive and commendable, made even more impressive by the sheer number of manuscripts and incunabula she consulted. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW (The author's) comprehensive research provides a foundation for future scholars to work in a rich field that rewards close analysis. MEDIUM AEVUM Offers important new ways of understanding the construction of late medieval and early modern society from childhood into adulthood. PARERGON An important study of continuities and shifts in the literature that shaped children and attitudes toward children and young people in Late Medieval and sixteenth-century England. CHILDHOOD IN THE PAST (M)akes a number of significant contributions to the existing historiography. (...) a well-researched and thoughtfully argued monograph which I hope receives significant attention from social and cultural historians of late medieval and early modern England. REVIEWS IN HISTORY


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Merridee L. Bailey is a social and cultural historian of late medieval and early modern England. She is an Associate Member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.

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