Centuries of childhood / Philippe Aries ; translated from the French by Robert Baldick ; with a new introduction by Adam Phillips.
By: Ariès, Philippe [author]
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Contributor(s): Baldick, Robert [translator] | Phillips, Adam.
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BookPublisher: London : Pimlico, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Description: 414 pages ; 22cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0712674586 (paperback); 9780712674584 (paperback).Subject(s): Children -- France -- History | Family -- France -- HistoryDDC classification: 305.230944 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to children, looked upon as small adults as soon as they were past infancy, to the seventeenth and eighteenth century awareness of the child as the focal point of family life. Aries goes on to examine the schooling of children and the development of modern educational methods. In the second section, he describes the metamorphosis of the family: at first the family was a unit in which everything was open and public and children mingled with adults in the social life of the community; eventually the family become a closed or private society, within which children had a unique and important status.
Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-404) and index.
Part one: The idea of childhood -- The ages of life -- The discovery of childhood -- Children's dress -- A modest contribution to the history of games and pastimes -- From immodesty to innocence -- Summary: The two concepts of childhood -- Part two: Scholastic life -- Medieval scholars young and old -- A new institution: the college -- The origins of the school class -- The pupil's age -- The progress of discipline -- From day-school to boarding-school -- The 'little schools' -- The roughness of schoolchildren -- Summary: School and the duration of childhood -- Part three: The family -- Pictures of the family -- From the medieval family to the modern family -- Summary: the family and sociability -- Conclusion.
CIT Module SOCI 6004 - Supplementary reading
Translation of: L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'ancien regime.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Philippe Aries was born in Blois in 1914. He studies at the Sorbonne and later became an expert on tropical agriculture. This he found only modestly absorbing and consequently took up historical research, describing his experiences in this area, in his autobiography, Un historien du dimanche.His first interest was in demography, the starting point for his book, Centuries of Childhood and for an earlier work Histoire des populations francaises . His later and more controversial works, focusing on the subject of death, include Western Attitudes Towards Death and The Hour of Our Death .
All Aries' books are outstanding examples of the discoveries which historians can make when they decide to concentrate on what Balzac claimed should be the province of the novel: that of writing the history of manners and of man's perception of himself. Phillipe Aries died in February 1984.