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Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (French: L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'ancien régime; English: lit. "The Child and Family Life in the Ancien Régime) is a 1960 book on the history of childhood by French historian Philippe Ariès known in English by its 1962 translation.
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Philippe Ariès’s Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (1960) is one of the most influential—and divisive—histories of childhood ever written. Originally published in French, under the title L’Enfant et La Vie Familliale Sous L’Ancien Regime,
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Aries traces the evolution of the concept of childhood from the end of the Middle Ages, when the child was regarded as a small adult, to the present child-centered society, by means of diaries, paintings, games, and school curricula.
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Mar 29, 2022 · Centuries of childhood. In this pioneering book, now regarded as a hugely influential and classic study, Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. This edition includes a new introduction.
Aries traces the evolution of the concept of childhood from the end of the Middle Ages, when the child was regarded as a small adult, to the present child-centered society, by means of diaries, paintings, games, and school curricula.
- Philippe Aries
- Paperback
A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what childhood is and what the institution means for society at large.
Philippe Ariès, whose Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Fam- ily Life — an evocative mistranslation of the original title, L’Enfant et la vie familiale sous l’Ancien Régime — burst on the scene in 1962.
