Classen Albrecht (ed.) Childhood in the Middle Ages And the Renaissance: The Results of a Paradigm Shift in the History of Mentality

Walter de Gruyter, 2005. — 444 p.Although many researchers have taken a critical stance towards the theses on the history of childhood developed by Philippe Ariès in 1960, this volume is the first comprehensive collection of studies with a psychological and emotional historical orientation to demonstrate convincingly the extent to which the relationship between parents and children was a fundamental element of European society in pre-modern times.