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Index
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Changing Conceptions of Childhood
1 Conceptions of Childhood in the Middle Ages
Critiques of Ariès’s work
Medieval conceptions of childhood
2 The Quest for a Turning Point
‘Discoveries’ during the Middle Ages
The contribution of the early modern period
The eighteenth century: Locke, Rousseau and the early Romantics
Towards a long childhood and adolescence, c.1900
Conclusion
3 Some Themes in the Cultural History of Childhood
Depravity/innocence
Nature/nurture
Independence/dependence
Age/sex
Conclusion
Part II: Growing up: Relations with Parents and Peers
4 Parent–Child Relations: The First Stages
The desire for children
Measures to control fertility
Delivering the baby
Baptism
Welcoming the child into the community?
Coping with death
Conclusion
5 Caring for Infants?
The wet-nursing business
Food, clothing and hygiene
Infanticide and child murder
The abandonment of infants
Conclusion
6 Parent–Child Relations during the Second Phase of Childhood
Relations with mothers and other carers
Early training: hygiene, walking and talking
Beginning a child’s education: toys and books
Some harsh lessons: fear and irony
Breaking the will
Conclusion
7 Relations with Parents and the Peer Group during the Third Phase of Childhood
Parent–child relations
Dealing with abusive and negligent parents
Mixing with the peer group
Leaving home
Conclusion
Part III: Children in a Wider World
8 Children at Work
Children and family work routines
Child labour and industrialization
Child labour and child welfare
Child labour in decline
Conclusion
9 Investing in the Future: Health and Education
Child health, morbidity and mortality
The child and the school
Conclusion
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index
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