Paintings and Illuminated Manuscripts as Sources of the History of Childhood Conceptions of Childhood in the Renaissance
“The history of childhood” refers to a discipline, including Renaissance views on children, children’s lives, and child-rearing practices, as well as their environments and surroundings changing over time (from past to present). Paintings and other visual documents from this time could help us inter...
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| Published in | In the Beginning was the Image: The Omnipresence of Pictures p. 91 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Peter Lang GmbH
20.12.2016
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| Online Access | Get full text |
| ISBN | 3631678606 9783631678602 |
| DOI | 10.3726/b10396 |
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| Summary: | “The history of childhood” refers to a discipline, including Renaissance views on children, children’s lives, and child-rearing practices, as well as their environments and surroundings changing over time (from past to present). Paintings and other visual documents from this time could help us interpret childhood and the world of children from their perspective. This article will introduce the aims of a study and doctoral thesis, and review the possible iconographical, semiotic, visual anthropologic and visual sociological picture analysis methods of pedagogical research. The goal of the thesis is to describe how the conceptions of childhood changed in a specific period |
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| ISBN: | 3631678606 9783631678602 |
| DOI: | 10.3726/b10396 |