Winner of the 1994-95 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for studies in Germanic languages and literatures
James A Schultz has brought a historiographic approach to nearly two hundred Middle High German texts—narrative, didactic, homiletic, legal, religious, and secular. He explores what they say about the nature of the child, the role of inherited and individual traits, the status of education, the remarkable number of disruptions these children suffered as they grew up, the rites of passage that mark coming of age, the various genres of childhood narratives, and the historical development of such narratives.
Author(s): James A. Schultz Jr.
Series: The Middle Ages Series
Edition: 2
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 1995
Language: English
Pages: 339
City: Philadelphia
Cover
Title Page, Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
On Notes, Translations, and Names
1. Zingerle's Rattle: History and the Knowledge of Childhood
2. Words: Defining the Terms of Childhood
3. Nature: The Determinations of Birth
4. Nurture: The Limits of Intervention
5. Relations: Attachment, Separation, and Strange Situations
6. Adulthood: Coming of Age or Growing Up
7. Genres: Different Children's Stories
8. History: Two-and-a-Half Centuries of Childhood
9. Obilot's Games: A Different Knowledge of Childhood
Bibliography
Index of Middle High German Children
General Index
