Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 36657
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  • Title: Être enfant au Moyen Âge
  • Source: Être enfant au Moyen Âge: Anthologie de textes consacrés à la vie de l'enfant du Ve au XVe siècle.  Edited by Pierre Riché.  Editions Fabert, 2010.  Pages 14 - 209.
  • Description: Offers a collection of primary source texts and extracts in French translation. The pieces are arranged in sections dealing with infants, parenting, education, joys and sorrows, life in monasteries, religion, and the transition to adolescence. Texts concerning girls discuss such issues as the education of young nuns (7th c.), a dead girl brought back to life, and how King Louis IX was consoled when his wife gave birth to a daughter.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Boys Children Education Girls Monasticism Religion
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  • Century: 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15
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  • Year of Publication: 2010.
  • Language: French
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9782849220894