Article: History of Childhood

History of Childhood


europe
Benjamin B. Roberts

united states
N. Ray Hiner
Joseph M. Harwes

EUROPE


With his 1960 L'Enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien R é gime (published in English in 1962 as Centuries of Childhood ), Philippe Ari È s put the history of childhood on the map. Since then, this former terra incognita has become a well-trodden battlefield for historians and social scientists. In a nutshell, the childhoods that Ari è s sketched in Europe's Middle Ages and early modern period were not happy. Childhood was a social construction that developed between around 1500 and 1800. According to Ari è s, the major differences between contemporary childhood and ...


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