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00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:03:35 Birth and Baptism
00:08:35 Care and Danger in Early Life
00:20:00 Play and Learning
00:26:56 Education and Apprenticeship
00:38:42 Noble and Peasant Childhoods
00:43:20 Religion and Festivals
00:49:14 Hardships and Resilience
00:54:03 Thoughts and Conclusion


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Sources and Further Reading

Dhuoda (9th century), Liber Manualis.

Benedict of Nursia (c. 540), Rule of St. Benedict.

Vincent of Beauvais (c. 1250), De eruditione filiorum nobilium.

Philippe Ariès (1962), Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life.

Shulamith Shahar (1990), Childhood in the Middle Ages.

Nicholas Orme (2001), Medieval Children.

Barbara A. Hanawalt (1993), Growing Up in Medieval London.

Danièle Alexandre-Bidon & Didier Lett (1999), Children in the Middle Ages, 5th–15th Centuries.

Paston Family (15th century), The Paston Letters.

Christine de Pizan (1405), The Treasure of the City of Ladies.

Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.