Name: Centuries of Childhood
Price: 755.00 TWD
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Author: Philippe Ariès
ISBN: 9780712674584

Type

Physical Book

Author

Philippe Ariès

Publisher

Pimlico

Year

1996

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780712674584

Centuries of Childhood

Philippe Ariès (Author) · Pimlico · Paperback

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Synopsis "Centuries of Childhood "

In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to children, looked upon as small adults as soon as they were past infancy, to the seventeenth and eighteenth century awareness of the child as the focal point of family life. Aries goes on to examine the schooling of children and the development of modern educational methods. In the second section, he describes the metamorphosis of the family: at first the family was a unit in which everything was open and public and children mingled with adults in the social life of the community; eventually the family become a closed or private society, within which children had a unique and important status.

Philippe Ariès

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Philippe Ariès (1914-1984) was a French historian known for his pioneering studies on the history of childhood, family, and death. Although he initially trained in medieval history and worked outside the academic sphere, Ariès gained significant relevance with his work L’enfant et la vie familiale sous l’Ancien Régime (1960), translated as The Child and Family Life in the Old Regime. In this book, he argued that childhood, as we conceive it today, is a relatively recent social construct, born in the Modern Age

His research, influenced by the Annales school, focused on the cultural and emotional aspects of everyday life, paying special attention to social representations of time, death, and family customs. In Essais sur l’histoire de la mort en Occident (1977), he explored how attitudes towards death have changed from the Middle Ages to the 20th century

Ariès was criticized for basing many of his conclusions on artistic and literary sources, but his innovative approach opened new paths for cultural and social history. He died in Paris in 1984, leaving a fundamental legacy in contemporary historiography

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