Surviving the Middle Ages as a Child. Posted: March 25, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. In 1960 the author Philippe Ariès published his controversial book Centuries of Childhood: A Social ...

Parenting during the medieval period, which spanned roughly from the 5th to the late 15th century, differed markedly from contemporary child-rearing practices, shaped by the distinct societal ...

Parents’ relative lack of interest in their children in the Middle Ages may have been a rational response to a distressingly high infant mortality rate, reckoned to have been around 200-300 per ...

A show of manuscripts at the Getty Center depicting medieval puzzles, games and jousts reveals diversions that, like chess, span our radically different lives and times.