The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350 / / James A. Schultz, Jr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Schultz, Jr., James A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; On Notes, Translations, and Names --; 1. Zingerle's Rattle: History and the Knowledge of Childhood --; 2. Words: Defining the Terms of Childhood --; 3. Nature: The Determinations of Birth --; 4. Nurture: The Limits of Intervention --; 5. Relations: Attachment, Separation, and Strange Situations --; 6. Adulthood: Coming of Age or Growing Up --; 7. Genres: Different Children's Stories --; 8. History: Two-and-a-Half Centuries of Childhood --; 9. Obilot's Games: A Different Knowledge of Childhood --; Bibliography --; Index of Middle High German Children --; General Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512806670; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512806670
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James A. Schultz, Jr.

James A Schultz has brought a historiographic approach to nearly two hundred Middle High German texts-narrative, didactic, homiletic, legal, religious, and secular. He explores what they say about the nature of the child, the role of inherited and individual traits, the status of education, the remarkable number of disruptions these children suffered as they grew up, the rites of passage that mark coming of age, the various genres of childhood narratives, and the historical development of such narratives.