Ancient And Medieval Rites Of Passage: Volume 1; Editor: Levi, Giovanni; Editor: Schmitt, Jean-Claude; Paperback

Editor: Levi, Giovanni; Editor: Schmitt, Jean-Claude
Series#:1; History of Young People; Paperback; 1 Line Illustration
402 pages
Published: November 1999
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674404076

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 lycees of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth.New in paperback. Ancient and medieval rites of passage, translated by Camille Naish.Historians and social scientists give an account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages, tracing the changing character of young people in culture, society, economics, politics and art from early times.