In this lively and accessible book, Colin Heywood explores the changing experiences and perceptions of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of
Inquiring into childhood is one of the most appropriate ways to address the perennial and essential question of what it is that makes human beings – each of u
Filling a gap in a field with very few teaching books available, Childhood in World History provides a much-needed historical overview. Studying childhood histo
from the Foreword: Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddlin
Colin Heywood's classic account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War combines a long-run historical perspective with a broad geographi