Medieval Children
- Author / Editor
- Orme, Nicholas [I.]
Medieval Children
- Published
- New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 2001.
- Physical Description
- xii, 387 pp. : 125 b&w and color illus.
- Description
- Orme surveys medieval childhood, from the seventh to the mid-sixteenth century, with emphasis on England. Topics include birth and family life, danger and death, children's literature, learning to read and reading for pleasure, play, children and the church, and growing up into law, labor, and sexuality. Passim references to children in medieval English literature, including Chaucer's works, especially CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Canterbury Tales--General.