Forgotten Childhoods? Children and Childhood in Historical Perspectives

Dr. Tali Berner

In this course we will study the history of children's daily life in selected historical societies. We will review the different historical and methodological approaches historians and archeologists used to overcome the obstacles in studying the history of children and childhood in past societies.

Among the topics that will be covered:

Pre-historical childhoods

Children in the classical world: Greece and Rome

Children and the three monotheistic religions

Children in the middle ages

The rise of pediatrics and pedagogy

Rites of childhood

Schooling and education

Parents and children: shifting relations