Travessias (Dec 2007)
THE CHILDHOOD IN THE MIDDLE AGE ( XIV – XVI ) CONCERNING
Abstract
The focus of this analysis is concentrated in some aspects related to the way the medieval childhood appears on the current historiography and the representation of children in some works of the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel, the Elder. The study of Childhood History, in spite of recent, mixes speeches from many knowledge areas and tense argues. The History process witch involves this concept includes issues that go beyond the biological factors depending on the context and conditions of the sociocultural, considering the productions discourse and the social place gave to childhood in different eras. The bibliographic research has been used as methodology, aimed with the historiographical debate and the analysis of image. The objective is pointing different analyses about the conceptions of the presence or absence of the sense of childhood in the Middle Age. The importance of the discussion about the Medieval Childhood is not placed on search the truth in each argument but in polyphonic discourse, which crosses, in differing conceptions of childhood, or the way children are perceived and placed on societies.
