ENGL 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: England In The Middle Ages, Unearth
Document Summary
Domesticity: based on the household i. e. family, children. Modern equivalent of a conduct poem: books, tv, fairy tales. All of the above have a point behind story. Fairy tales were often very dark: help get point across better. Aries: published centuries of childhood" in 1960. Claims that the idea of childhood did not exist in medieval times: does not account for children"s literature of the time. There are examples of children"s literature written for different age groups. Bailey: published socializing the child" in 2012. Claims that the household and family are the basic units of western society: wrote about medieval england. Family life in england shows larger societal norms. Male experiences are easier to unearth than female. Believes there is a difference between studying childhood and children: unlike aries who believes they are one and the same. Important historical events in medieval era: surge of mystical writings by women in the 15th century.
