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Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England
Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England Author:Ilana Ben-Amos In preindustrial England, when few people could expect to live past the age of forty, adolescence and youth represented a significant proportion of an individual`s life. This book by Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos is the first to recreate vividly the experience of growing up in early modern England. Drawing on urban and court records as well as on 74 c... more »ontemporary autobiographies, Ben-Amos describes the maturation processes of young people from the middle and lower classes who spent their youth as apprentices, domestic servants, or agricultural servants and laborers.« less