HUMA 1970 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anne Geddes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tabula Rasa
13 Oct 2017
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The study of past events, particularly in human affairs (oed) Reconstruction of past through the study of written documents preserved in institutional archives. The study of history - of the way history has been written. The study of the way history has been and is written - the history of historical writing. When you study historiography" you do not study the events of the past directly, but the changing interpretations of those events in the worlds of individual historians. Because medieval art didn"t know childhood, their art didn"t portray it - there was no real pleace for childhood - aries. Mobile and competing constructions of the child and childhood - flexible, they move around, they can be in tensions. Educable child - this is one of the major shifts in this period. Social, political and economic shifts that influence changing conceptions of children and childhood.
