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Article: History of Childhood
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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 ...