Overview
- Provides the first substantial and detailed study of growing up in the medieval English village
- Explores not only the lives of young people in medieval rural society, but also the attitudes of adult peasants to their offspring
- Employs an interdisciplinary research perspective, utilising manorial records and archaeological sources
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood (PSHC)
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This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450. Hit by major catastrophes – the Great Famine and then a few decades later the Black Death – this book examines how rural society coped with children left orphaned, and land inherited by children and adolescents considered too young to run their holdings. Using manorial court rolls, accounts and other documents, Miriam Müller looks at the guardians who looked after the children, and the chattels and lands the children brought with them. This book considers not just rural concepts of childhood, and the training and schooling young peasants received, but also the nature of supportive kinship networks, family structures and the roles of lordship, to offer insights into the experience of childhood and adolescence in medieval villages more broadly.
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Book Title: Childhood, Orphans and Underage Heirs in Medieval Rural England
Book Subtitle: Growing up in the Village
Authors: Miriam Müller
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03602-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03601-0Published: 28 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03602-7Published: 12 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6532
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 213
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Medieval Europe, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Social History, Cultural History