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Episode 36: Sweet Child of Mine
Ask a Medievalist
English - August 09, 2021 02:08 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBHistory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Summary So you lived through birth…now what? Despite the popular image of the Middle Ages putting children to work the instant they were capable of holding a tool, Medieval childhood was actually pretty similar to modern childhood. No iPads, but people bought cute clothes for their kids, lots of different types of toys, sent them …