Growing up in medieval London : the experience of childhood in history / Barbara A. Hanawalt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanawalt, Barbara A., 1941- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--England--London--History.

Children.

City and town life--England--London.

City and town life.

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Youth--England--London--History.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This vivid account of growing up in former times attempts to dispel the folkloric myths that claim that childhood and adolescence did not exist in the Middle Ages. In these pages, the reader meets London's children and adolescents at play and work in their homes, parishes, schools and streets.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

1. Introduction

Approaches to Studying Childhood and Youth

Sources for Studying Childhood and Youth

The Historical Context

2. The Material Environment of London's Youth

Housing

Neighborhoods: Streets, Parishes, and Wards

The Larger City: Forays Outside the Neighborhood

The Material Standard of Living

3. Birth and Baptism: Membership in a Social and Spiritual Network

Birth and Baptism

Thomas Seint John Imagined

4. The Fragile Years of Childhood

Survivors and Nonsurvivors of Childhood

A Child of the Parish

The First Seven Years

5. Childrearing, Training, and Education

The Daily Routine

Games and Play

A Schoolboy Who Aspired to Be Episcopus Puerorum

Schooling

Moral Behavior and Its Goals

6. Orphans and Their Upbringing

Laws on Orphans and Guardians

The Age and Condition of Orphans

The Guardians

Alison, the Bastard Heiress

Abuses of Wards and Orphans

Disruptions of Wardship

Caxton's Puzzle Revisited

7. Life on the Threshold of Adolescence

Social Puberty and Biological Puberty

Adolescent Games

Joan Rawlyns of Alderham

Sexual Initiation

Riot and Misrule

8. Entering into Apprenticeship

Establishment of Apprenticeship

Ceremonies of Initiation

Female Apprentices

Profile of the Apprentice Population

An Italian Traveler Leads Twentieth-Century Historians Astray, or the Lasting Importance of the Natal Family and Friends

William Bothe, Mercers' Apprentice

9. Relationships Between Masters and Apprentices

Faults of Masters

Rebellious Apprentices

William Raynold and Thomas Appleford, Apprentices, Versus Richard Berne, Mercer and Master

Friendship Between Masters and Apprentices

10. Servants

Formation of the Service Contract

Who Became a Servant?

Living Arrangements.

Expected Relations Between Master or Mistress and Servant

The Reality of Relationships Between Master and Servant

Servant Murders Master

Leisure and Relationships with Other Servants

Journeymen

11. On Becoming Sad and Wise

Age of Exit from Adolescence

Ceremonies for Coming of Age

Other Experiences that Induced Sadness and Wiseness

John Borell, Who Tried to Live Happily Ever After as a Sad and Wise Man

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y.

Notes:

Bibliography : p267-279). Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771361-0

0-19-987997-4

9786613113382

1-283-11338-4

0-19-977188-X

0-585-34631-3

OCLC:

47011387