CHYS 1F90 Lecture : lec 3!.doc

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Lecture 3: ideas about childhood the west and the rest. Limited data- in general, not everybody kept records. Children"s voice- we can see and hear things, but we don"t know how they felt: challenge of historical data institutional, churches, etc. Some voices of upper class children that kept diaries and art. actually painting or being painted. We have to recognize where it is actually coming from. Making inferences- assumptions and beliefs don"t match the people that were: shifts in ideas: the invention of childhood, philippe aries centuries of childhood: french scholar of people in france in the middle ages. Thesis: our modern conception of childhood is something that did not exist in the middle ages. He said if you look at the middle ages, you don"t see paintings of kids looking like kids, they look more like adults. He also argued there were not unique games/toys for kids, adults and kids played same games.

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