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Miniature for the entry etas "age" in the Omne Bonum encyclopedia (London, 14th century, BL Royal MS 6 E vii, fol. 67v) showing children playing with toys and catching butterflies. In medieval England, according to common law, childhood ranged from the birth of a child until he or she reached the age of 12. At this point, the child was seen as ...
The label "peasant" encompasses a wider range of social classes than previously thought. [3] By the 15th century, wealthier sub-classes of peasants were beginning to emerge under the manorial estates in the rural countryside of at least some parts of England, notably in the pastoral areas more than the heavily agrarian areas of the Midlands. [4]
Marten, James, ed. Children and Youth during the Civil War Era (2012) excerpt and text search; Marten, James. Children and Youth in a New Nation (2009) Marten, James. Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A Brief History with Documents (2004), includes primary sources; Marten, James. The Children's Civil War (2000) excerpt and ...
Village sign depicting the two green children of Woolpit, erected in 1977 [1] The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen (r. 1135–1154). The children, found ...
Full-time weavers tended to cluster in rows of cottages forming a hamlet while the smallholders cottage was likely to be solitary. [7] The man of the house was the most productive and worked full-time, his wife shared her time between the loom and childcare. Unmarried children were employed and trained on the job. [8]
The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War, and instability within the local leadership of ...
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The history of England during the Late Middle Ages covers from the thirteenth century, the end of the Angevins, and the accession of Henry II – considered by many to mark the start of the Plantagenet dynasty – until the accession to the throne of the Tudor dynasty in 1485, which is often taken as the most convenient marker for the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the English ...