![]() ![]() ![]() Do children have a history?Ī lot of scholarly ink has been spilled in the debate over whether children in the past were understood to have distinct needs. Some medieval manuscripts, such as Bodleian Library Ashmole 61, included courtesy poems explicitly directed at “children yong”, alongside popular Middle English romances, saints’ lives and legends, and short moral and comic tales. In a society where reading aloud was common practice, children were also likely to have been among the audiences who listened to romances and secular poetry. ![]() So make sure your body remains upright and evenly balanced.” This advice shows how physical comportment was seen to reflect moral virtue.Įrasmus’s work was translated into English (by Robert Whittington in 1532) as A lytyll booke of good manners for children, where it joined a body of conduct literature aimed at wealthy adolescents. Desiderius Erasmus famously produced a book of etiquette in Latin, On Civility in Children (1530), which gave much useful advice, including “don’t wipe your nose on your sleeve” and “To fidget around in your seat, and to settle first on one buttock and then the next, gives the impression that you are repeatedly farting, or trying to fart. Other works were about manners and laid out how children should behave. ![]()
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