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A History of Young People in the West, Volume I: Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage (Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage, Volume 1) (v. 1)

Authors:Giovanni Levi, Jean-Claude Schmitt
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: medieval, rites, passage, ancient, volume, people, west, history
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1999-11-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0674404076
ISBN-13: 9780674404076

Book Description:

However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lyces of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth.


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