Socialising The Child In Late Medieval England c.1400-1600

Socialising The Child In Late Medieval England c.1400-1600
Author/editor: Dr Merridee Bailey
Publisher: York Medieval Press, United Kingdom
Year published: 2012
School/Centre: School of History

Abstract

The question and procedures of integrating children into wider society during the medieval and early modern period are debated across a wide range of contemporary texts, in both print and manuscript form. This study takes as its focus the ways in which vernacular literature (including English courtesy poems, incunabula and sixteenth-century printed household books, grammar school statutes, and pedagogic books) provided a guide to socialising children. The author examines the transmission and reception of this literature, showing how patterns of thought changed during the period for parents, teachers, and young people alike; and places children and family reading networks into the context of debates on the history of childhood, and the history of the book.

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