by Philippe Aries · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780394702865
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«Centuries of Childhood» is the historical essay by Philippe Aries on childhood and the family, published by Vintage in paperback (448 pages, in English).
The author studies how childhood was understood from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, when children were treated as miniature adults, and shows the emergence of the modern family and of the sentiment of childhood through diaries, paintings, games and school curricula.
English translation by Robert Baldick of the French original «L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Régime»; the edition includes bibliographic references and an index.
For readers of social and cultural history interested in the evolution of childhood and family life in the West.
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Philippe Ariès was a French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood, in the style of Georges Duby. He wrote many books on common daily life. His most prominent works concerned the change in western attitudes towards death.
