Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / William L. Langer -- Editor's preface ; The evolution of childhood / Lloyd deMause -- Barbarism and religion : late Roman and early Medieval childhood / Richard B. Lyman -- Survivors and surrogates : children and parents from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries / Mary Martin McLaughlin -- The middle-class child in urban Italy, fourteenth to early sixteenth century / James Bruce Ross -- The child as beginning and end : fifteenth and sixteenth century English childhood / M.J. Tucker -- Nature versus nurture : patterns and trends in seventeenth-century French child-rearing / Elizabeth Wirth Marvick -- Child-rearing in seventeenth-century England and America / Joseph E. Illick -- A period of ambivalence : eighteenth-century American childhood / John F. Walzer -- "That enemy is the baby" : childhood in imperial Russia / Patrick P. Dunn -- Home as a nest : middle class childhood in nineteenth-century Europe / Priscilla Robertson.