|
Session |
Date |
Topics |
Era / Civilization |
Reading |
|
1 |
8/31/05 |
INTRODUCTION
The historicity of childhood |
|
|
|
2 |
9/7/05 |
Household systems
Child sacrifice |
ANCIENT
|
Bible 1*
Bible 2*
|
|
3 |
9/14/05 |
Childbirth
Wetnursing |
GREEK AND HELLENISTIC |
Homer*
Euripides* |
|
4 |
9/21/05 |
Infant
mortality, exposure, abandonment
Infanticide, abortion, abuse |
ROME
|
Plutarch*
Quintilian*
Augustine
books
1 and 2* |
|
5 |
9/28/05 |
Legitimacy and illegitimacy
Boys and girls |
MIDDLE AGES |
Dhuoda#
Guibert de Nogent
(book I, chapters 1-7)* |
|
6 |
10/19/05 |
Blended families
Language learning |
RENAISSANCE AND HUMANISM
|
Vergerio*
Barbaro#
Erasmus#
Vives# |
|
7 |
10/26/05 |
Toys, dolls, and clothing
Representations of children |
EARLY MODERN: THE CONTINENT
|
Rösslin#
Lazarillo de Tormes
(books 1-3)*
Montaigne* |
|
8 |
11/2/05 |
Witchcraft and cannibalism
The age of reason |
EARLY MODERN: ENGLAND
|
Joscelin#
Jonson*
Behn*
Wesley# |
|
9 |
11/9/05 |
Sainthood and conversion
Childhood innocence |
ENLIGHTENMENT |
Wollstonecraft#
Rousseau,
Confessions
(book 1)*
Rousseau, Emile
(pars. 10-182)* |
|
10 |
11/16/05 |
Mourning the dead
Priceless children |
COLONIAL AND SLAVERY
|
Bradstreet*
Franklin
(part I, pp. 1-14)*
Douglass (chapters 1-5)*
Jacobs (chapters 1-2)* |
|
11 |
11/23/05 |
Children and work
Apprenticeship and servitude |
US TO 1900 |
Henry Adams (chapter 1)*
Carnegie
(chapters 1-2)*
Riis
(chapters 15-17)* |
|
12 |
11/30/05 |
Children at school
University students |
19th-CENTURY EUROPE
|
Wordsworth*
Dickens (chapters 1-4)*
John Stuart Mill (chapter 1)*
Popp# |
|
13 |
12/7/05 |
Adolescence and youth
Childrearing advice |
NON-WESTERN
|
Gandhi
(chapters 1-3)*
Xhu Xiao Di (CUNY ebook)
(chapters 1-3) |
|
14 |
12/14/05 |
Student reports |
20th CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY
|
Aleramo#
Mandelstam# |