Medievalists.net » Adolescence http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Experience of Growing Up in Medieval Society http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/10/the-experience-of-growing-up-in-medieval-society/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/10/the-experience-of-growing-up-in-medieval-society/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:23:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59534 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/10/the-experience-of-growing-up-in-medieval-society/feed/ 0 Youth and Old Age in Late Medieval London http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/14/youth-and-old-age-in-late-medieval-london/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/14/youth-and-old-age-in-late-medieval-london/#comments Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:07:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46661 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/14/youth-and-old-age-in-late-medieval-london/feed/ 0 Adolescence in Jewish medieval society under Islam http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/06/adolescence-in-jewish-medieval-society-under-islam/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/06/adolescence-in-jewish-medieval-society-under-islam/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:37:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=13426 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, […]

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