Robert Baldick (1927–1972)
Auteur de L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Régime
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Robert Baldick
The First Bohemian: The Life of Henry Murger 6 exemplaires
Theatre of War 3 exemplaires
The Dhammapada 1 exemplaire
Le Siège de Paris 1 exemplaire
Beowulf 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Voyage au centre de la terre [texte intégral] (1864) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 14,841 exemplaires
The Bacchae and Other Plays (0413) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 1,248 exemplaires
La Dame au petit chien et autres nouvelles (1964) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 959 exemplaires
3 Plays: Alcestis / Hippolytus / Iphigenia in Taurus (0438) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 643 exemplaires
L'époque contemporaine. Tome 1/2 : Restaurations et révolutions, 1815-1871 (1953) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 143 exemplaires
Mémoires de ma vie (1961) — Traducteur, quelques éditions; Editor/Translator, quelques éditions — 66 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Baldick, Robert
- Nom légal
- Baldick, Robert André Edouard
- Date de naissance
- 1927-11-09
- Date de décès
- 1972-04
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Professions
- scholar
writer
editor
translator - Organisations
- Pembroke College, Oxford University
- Prix et distinctions
- Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford University
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Aussi par
- 24
- Membres
- 765
- Popularité
- #33,261
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 29
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 1
Until the end of the middle ages, particularly before the 16th century, Western society barely distinguished between the sphere of adults and children. We early learn that in bygone ages children worked, married and even went to war before they ever hit puberty. The idea of childhood innocence is fairly new according to Aries. He provides startling evidence of that, particularly from the diary of a physician describing the childhood of the future King Louis XIII of France. Adults casually played with a child's genitals, children nonchalantly exposed themselves, and crude sexual jokes and comments were made in front of children.
Memorable and striking as that was, it also does identify one weakness I found in the work--that so much was focused on France, and in this case what has to be the most atypical of childhoods, that of royalty. Arles was also often exhaustive in his details to the point of tedium. This really isn't a popular history written to entertain. On the other hand this is an erudite and enlightening survey of the topic, based on what is obviously prodigious and meticulous original research that took in fascinating details of the history not just of childhood but dress and especially education and the nuances between not just children and adults but factors of gender and class. Published in 1960 it was a seminal work on the subject, and I still find many of the customs detailed and theories propounded thought-provoking.… (plus d'informations)