The History of Childhood

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A survey of childhood that reveals startling views of life in Europe and America during the past 2000 years. This book documents the lives of former children who were abused. It places child abuse today into the context of what was routinely inflicted upon Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword Editor's Preface Contributors 1: The Evolution of Childhood 2: Barbarism and Religion: Late Roman and Early Medieval Childhood 3: Survivors and Surrogates: Children and Parents from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Centuries 4: The Middle-Class Child in Urban Italy, Fourteenth to Early Sixteenth Century 5: The Child as Beginning and End: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century English Childhood 6: Nature Versus Nurture: Patterns and Trends in Seventeenth-Century French Child-Rearing 7: Child-Rearing in Seventeenth-Century England and America 8: A Period of Ambivalence: Eighteenth- Century American Childhood 9: "That Enemy Is the Baby": Childhood in Imperial Russia 10: Home As a Nest: Middle Class Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Europe Index