The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350 / / 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 rema...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
©1996
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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