Socialising the child in late Medieval England, c. 1400-1600 / Merridee L. Bailey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bailey, Merridee L.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Children.

Socialization--England--History--To 1500--Sources.

Socialization.

Child development--England--History--To 1500--Sources.

Child development.

History.

England.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

ix, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : York Medieval Press, University of York, 2012.

Summary:

The question and procedures of integrating children into wider society during the medieval and early modem period are debated across a wide range of contemporary texts, in both print and manuscript form. This study takes as its focus the ways in which vernacular literature (including English courtesy poems, incunabula and sixteenth-century printed household books, grammar school statutes, and pedagogic books) provided a guide to socialising children. The author examines the transmission and reception of this literature, showing how patterns of thought changed during the period for parents, teachers, and young people alike; and places children and family reading networks into the context of debates on the history of childhood, and the history of the book. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Courtesy Poems 11

2 Readers 43

3 Virtue and Vice 79

4 Sixteenth-Century Books 127

5 The School 159.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781903153420

1903153425

OCLC:

779874564