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The Experience of Growing Up in Medieval Society

July 10, 2015 By Medievalists.net

Medieval Children - Omne Bonum - Royal 6 E.VII, f.67v (det). Wiki Commons.

This session (#508) was one of several at Leeds devoted to exploring childhood in the Middle Ages. Our presenters talked about the stereotypes of adolescence, and what the coroner’s rolls revealed about the deaths (and lives) of medieval children.

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Youth and Old Age in Late Medieval London

January 14, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This article is concerned with the relationship between life stages and a person’s place in urban society. The two life stages studied here are the end of youth and the onset of old age, that is to say the two stages at either end of that period in life when men were most active economically, socially, and politically, when they were expected to build a family and run a business.

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Adolescence in Jewish medieval society under Islam

December 6, 2010 By Medievalists.net

Adolescence in Jewish medieval society under Islam Frenkel, Miriam Continuity and Change 16 (2), 2001 Abstract Adolescent experience has been the subject of an intensive interdisciplinary discourse for the last century; a subject whose roots go back to the basic issue of ‘nature versus nurture’. In examining this topic in Jewish medieval society under Islam, […]