This is the first study to examine the entire life cycle in the Middle Ages. Drawing on a wide range of secondary and primary material, the book explores the timing and experiences of infancy, childhood, adolescence and youth, adulthood, old age and, finally, death. It discusses attitudes towards ageing, rites of passage, age stereotypes in operation, and the means by which age was used as a form of social control, compelling individuals to work, govern, marry and pay taxes. The w...
قائمة المحتويات
1. Introduction
2. Age and life expectancy
3. Infancy
4. Boys and girls
5. Adolescence and youth
6. Adulthood
7. Old age
8. Endings
Bibliography
عن المؤلف
Deborah Youngs is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Wales Swansea
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