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Article: Cinq Livres, de la maniere de nourrir et gouverner les enfans des leur naissance.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2007
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Ed. Colette H. Winn. Simon de Vallambert. Cinq Livres, de la maniere de nourrir et gouverner les enfans des leur naissance.
Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance 74. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 512 pp. index, append, illus. gloss, chron. bibl. [euro]86.47. ISBN: 2-600-01029-7.
Colette Winn's latest work is impressive as much for its methodological objectives as for the clarity of its presentation. The theoretical focus, which is outlined in the introduction, is on sociology and medicine, particularly in the first half of the sixteenth century. The articulation of the issues and problems, the chapter titles in the introduction, the discussion of ...