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BL
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860107
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| Main Entry
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Müller, Miriam
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| Title & Author
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Childhood, orphans and underage heirs in medieval rural England : : growing up in the village /\ Miriam Müller.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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| Series Statement
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Palgrave studies in the history of childhood
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xii, 213 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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3030036022
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: 9783030036027
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3030036014
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9783030036010
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Vulnerable members of the community -- Inheritance, rights and goods -- Looking after underaged heirs -- Plotting out a living -- Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450. Hit by major catastrophes -- the Great Famine and then a few decades later the Black Death -- this book examines how rural society coped with children left orphaned, and land inherited by children and adolescents considered too young to run their holdings. Using manorial court rolls, accounts and other documents, Miriam Müller looks at the guardians who looked after the children, and the chattels and lands the children brought with them. This book considers not just rural concepts of childhood, and the training and schooling young peasants received, but also the nature of supportive kinship networks, family structures and the roles of lordship, to offer insights into the experience of childhood and adolescence in medieval villages more broadly.
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Guardian and ward-- England-- History-- To 1500.
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Orphans-- England-- History-- To 1500.
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Orphans-- England-- Social conditions.
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Rural children-- England-- History-- To 1500.
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Rural children-- England-- Social conditions.
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Children.
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Guardian and ward.
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Orphans-- Social conditions.
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Orphans.
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Rural children-- Social conditions.
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Rural children.
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Social conditions.
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Great Britain, History, Medieval period, 1066-1485.
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Great Britain, Social conditions.
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England.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.23094209/02
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| LC Classification
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DA175.M85 2019
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HQ792.G7M843 2019
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