A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties Over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

by William F. MacLehose

Beginning in the early thirteenth century, the burial of a child became an event of dramatic consequence. Child death took on a symbolic power, with great concern expressed over the fate of the body. William F. MacLehose follows the evolution of this social anxiety during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, an anxiety focused on images of children's vulnerability and susceptibility to external threats.

Employing a wide range of sources,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231142560
• ISBN13: 9780231142564
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher