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Master-Servant Childhood

A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Husbands, Wives and the Language of Patriarchy

    • Patrick Joseph Ryan
    Pages 25-45
  3. Boys, Girls and the Practices of Servitude

    • Patrick Joseph Ryan
    Pages 46-62
  4. Childhood Without Adulthood

    • Patrick Joseph Ryan
    Pages 63-81
  5. Generation, Age and the Logic of Correspondence

    • Patrick Joseph Ryan
    Pages 82-106
  6. The Master-Servant Sense of Being in Time

    • Patrick Joseph Ryan
    Pages 107-126
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 127-130

About this book

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.

Reviews

"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

Authors and Affiliations

  • King’s University College, Western University, Canada

    Patrick Joseph Ryan

About the author

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

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