The Ties That Bound by Barbara A. Hanawalt

Schultz's The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350 (Philadelphia, 1995), as well as a number of important continental works.

In the 'Preface' Finucane briefly sets The Rescue of the Innocents in the context of the recent proliferation of historical studies concentrating on the medieval children and childhood, including Barbara Hanawalt's The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families of Medieval England (New York, 1986) and Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History (New York, 1993), Shulamith Shahar's Childhood in the Middle Ages (London, 1990), and James A. These hagiographical sources, consisting mostly in eyewitness testimony and found in the records of both official ecclesiastical inquiries and ad hoc local compilations, provide the basis of Finucane's historical analysis in a most elusive arena: the emotional lives of medieval families within their specific cultures. Following a thematic organization that examines childhood trauma surrounding birth, illness, and accident, Finucane focuses on the miraculous cure of children whose recovery was attributed to the intervention of the divinely blessed. Finucane offers contemporary readers an important window into medieval life in the engaging and reasoned study, The Rescue of the Innocents: Endangered Children in Medieval Miracles. Well-known for his previous work, including Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England (London, 1977), and well-respected for his historical acumen, Ronald C.

The Ties That Bound by Barbara A. Hanawalt