James A Schultz has brought a historiographic approach to nearly two hundred Middle High German texts-narrative, didactic, homiletic, legal, religious, and secular. He explores what they say about the nature of the child, the role of inherited and individual traits, the status of education, the remarkable number of disruptions these children suffered as they grew up, the rites of passage that mark coming of age, the various genres of childhood narratives, and the historical development of such narratives.
- ISBN10 0812232976
- ISBN13 9780812232974
- Publish Date 16 October 1995
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 344
- Language English