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Master-Servant Childhood

A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture

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  • © 2013

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An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.

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"Ryan's Master-Servant Childhood promises to stimulate further investigation into the historiography and analysis of medieval childhood and to initiate broader discussion among historians and cultural critics alike." - Daniel T. Kline, Associate Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, USA

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  • King’s University College, Western University, Canada

    Patrick Joseph Ryan

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Patrick Ryan is Associate Professor of Childhood and Social Institutions at Kings University College at Western University, Canada.

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