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Childhood, Orphans and Underage Heirs in Medieval Rural England

Growing up in the Village. Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood

By (author) Miriam Muller
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland
Published: 28th Jan 2019
Dimensions: w 148mm h 210mm d 19mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN-10: 3030036014
ISBN-13: 9783030036010
Barcode No: 9783030036010
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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 Muller 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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