World History
Wow! If teenagers today think they have a rough life with high school and college, they should be thankful that they did not live in the Middle Ages. That's because almost all teenagers in medieval times, rich and poor, were bound over to work in someone else's home for seven or eight years!
According to this interesting story in BBC News Magazine,"many parents of all classes sent their children away from home to work as servants or apprentices - only a small minority went into the church or to university."
Why did the system develop? Historians think that the poor bound over their children for economic reasons. Some might have sent their children away because they were unruly.
The children had to behave. They signed a contract saying they would. "Many adolescents were contractually obliged to behave," notes the BBC.
This might be worth giving to my freshmen as an extra-credit project. Which teenagers had a better life?
Thanks to David Walp (@davidwalp) for tweeting the link.
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World History
Teenagers in Medieval Europe
According to this interesting story in BBC News Magazine,"many parents of all classes sent their children away from home to work as servants or apprentices - only a small minority went into the church or to university."
Why did the system develop? Historians think that the poor bound over their children for economic reasons. Some might have sent their children away because they were unruly.
The children had to behave. They signed a contract saying they would. "Many adolescents were contractually obliged to behave," notes the BBC.
This might be worth giving to my freshmen as an extra-credit project. Which teenagers had a better life?
Thanks to David Walp (@davidwalp) for tweeting the link.
- Snatched From The Holocaust
The BBC has this touching story about a six year old girl whose life was saved from the Holocaust by a neighbor. The story is Snatched from the Holocaust and it was written by Barbara Govan. The story begins, "Aged just six, Suzanne Rappoport saw both...
- Nineteenth-century American Children And What They Read
Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read - A site devoted to the magazines and books read by 19th-century American children, especially works published before 1870. Includes timeline, books and authors, papers and analyses, and images....
- Life In The Middle Ages
Life in the Middle Ages - Series of short essays by gifted resource students from Kyerene de las Brisas Elementary School. Many of the essays are illustrated by the children, and contain short summaries of aspects of everyday life in the Middle Ages....
- History Directories.
History Directories. I have previously mentioned several excellent Web directories that list history sites such as Yahoo! and the Open Directory Project. These are good sources for history sites on the Web as the directories are manually reviewed by real...
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