Master-Servant Childhood

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.

"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

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

1. Husbands, Wives, and the Language of Patriarchy 2. Boys, Girls, and the Practices of Servitude 3. Childhood Without Adulthood 4. Age, Generation, and the Logic of Correspondence 5. The Master-Servant Sense of Being in Time