著者

岩崎 浩三 兎沢 聖

雑誌

岩手県立大学社会福祉学部紀要 = Bulletin of the Faculty of Social Welfare, Iwate Prefectural University (ISSN:13448528)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, no.1, pp.1-9, 2002-09-30

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This paper explores the studies of children and childhood in the western society in the Middle Ages. Since the publication of "Centurirs of childhood" in which Aries asserted that the concept of childhood had not been recognized in the western medieval society, many writers have supported the idea. Recent findings of medievalists' researches, however, show different results from Aries's. Pollock, Schultz and Shahar argue that the concept of childhood existed in the medieval centuries. This paper states how these researchers believe of the childhood, image of children and how children were treated at that time.