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Oh Grow Up!

This essay considers the life cycle from infancy through old age during the Late Middle Ages.

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  1. Introduction
  2. A Few Questions
  3. Age Words
  4. Stereotypes About Age
  5. The Stereotype is Wrong
  6. Infancy
  7. Boys and Girls
  8. Childhood and the Church
  9. Formal Education
  10. Apprenticeship: the other education
  11. Adolescence
  12. Adulthood
  13. Marriage
  14. Arranged Marriages
  15. Middle Age
  16. Old Age
  17. Old Age
  18. Death
  19. Conclusion