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  2. Medieval Children - Wikipedia

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    Medieval Children is a 2001 book on the history of childhood written by English historian Nicholas Orme.It covers aspects of English children throughout the Middle Ages. The book addresses what is considered Philippe Ariès's central thesis in Centuries of Childhood, that there was no medieval understanding of childhood as a phase, an idea that critics have said Orme refutes successfu

  3. Medieval university - Wikipedia

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    Medieval university. Illustration from a 16th-century manuscript showing a meeting of doctors at the University of Paris. A medieval university was a corporation organized during the Middle Ages for the purposes of higher education. The first Western European institutions generally considered to be universities were established in present-day ...

  4. Childhood in medieval England - Wikipedia

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    Miniature for the entry etas "age" in the Omne Bonum encyclopedia (London, 14th century, BL Royal MS 6 E vii, fol. 67v) showing children playing with toys and catching butterflies. Childhood in Medieval England, according to common law, ranged from the birth of a child until he or she reached the age of 12. At this point, the child was seen as ...

  5. Medieval literature - Wikipedia

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    Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country).

  6. Children's Crusade - Wikipedia

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    The Children's Boat (2014) a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa. 1212 (1985), a quartet of historical novels aimed at children and young adults by Danish author and journalist Carsten Overskov. Matrix (2021), a novel by Lauren Groff. Follows a fictionalized version of Marie de France and her thoughts on the crusade.

  7. Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    A stained-glass panel from Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1175 – c. 1180, depicting the Parable of the Sower, a biblical narrative In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD. It is the second of the three traditional divisions of Western history: antiquity, medieval, and modern. Major developments ...

  8. History of childhood - Wikipedia

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    History of childhood. The history of childhood has been a topic of interest in social history since the highly influential book Centuries of Childhood, published by French historian Philippe Ariès in 1960. He argued "childhood" as a concept was created by modern society. Ariès studied paintings, gravestones, furniture, and school records.

  9. Book of hours - Wikipedia

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    Books of hours ( Latin: horae) are Christian prayer books, which were used to pray the canonical hours. [ 2] The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages, and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript.

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