Author: ARIES, PHILIPPE & (TRANS. BY ROBERT BALDICK)
Title: Centuries of Childhood a Social History of Family Life
Description: Vintage Books, 1965. Softcover. ISBN: 0394702867. Creasing to front corner of wraps. Highlighting to first few pages. ; The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Aries traces the evolution of the concept of childhood from the end of the Middle Ages, when the child was regarded as a small adult, to the present child-centered society, by means of diaries, paintings, games, and school curricula. Ironically, he finds that individualism, far from triumphing in our time, has been held in check by the family, and that the increasing power of the tightly-knit family circle has flourished at the expense of the rich-textured communal society of earlier times. Translated from the French by Robert Baldick. ; 7.9 X 5.1 X 1.0 inches; 448 pages. Good .

Keywords: 0394702867 Social & Cultural Women's Studies Children & Childhood Middle Ages Medieval Studies


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