Recent decades have seen a considerable amount of research into the experience of childhood and youth in medieval and early modern societies.
Drawing upon academic work of this sort History Extra has an article which provides a useful A-Z of aspects of life for the young in the middle ages. It corrects several modern misconceptions about life in the past and makes one see the nature of childhood and adolescence, however different it was from today, as nevertheless less unfamiliar than we might have thought.
The article can be viewed at Medieval childhood: a historical A-Z
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