Robert Baldick (1927–1972)
Autore di Padri e figli nell'Europa medievale e moderna
Sull'Autore
Opere di Robert Baldick
Opere correlate
3 Plays: Alcestis / Hippolytus / Iphigenia in Taurus (0438) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 644 copie
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand (1961) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni; Editor/Translator, alcune edizioni — 66 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Baldick, Robert
- Nome legale
- Baldick, Robert André Edouard
- Data di nascita
- 1927-11-09
- Data di morte
- 1972-04
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Attività lavorative
- scholar
writer
editor
translator - Organizzazioni
- Pembroke College, Oxford University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford University
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
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Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Opere correlate
- 24
- Utenti
- 768
- Popolarità
- #33,143
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 29
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 1
Until the end of the middle ages, particularly before the 16th century, Western society barely distinguished between the sphere of adults and children. We early learn that in bygone ages children worked, married and even went to war before they ever hit puberty. The idea of childhood innocence is fairly new according to Aries. He provides startling evidence of that, particularly from the diary of a physician describing the childhood of the future King Louis XIII of France. Adults casually played with a child's genitals, children nonchalantly exposed themselves, and crude sexual jokes and comments were made in front of children.
Memorable and striking as that was, it also does identify one weakness I found in the work--that so much was focused on France, and in this case what has to be the most atypical of childhoods, that of royalty. Arles was also often exhaustive in his details to the point of tedium. This really isn't a popular history written to entertain. On the other hand this is an erudite and enlightening survey of the topic, based on what is obviously prodigious and meticulous original research that took in fascinating details of the history not just of childhood but dress and especially education and the nuances between not just children and adults but factors of gender and class. Published in 1960 it was a seminal work on the subject, and I still find many of the customs detailed and theories propounded thought-provoking.… (altro)