Your Children

How do we measure attitudes such as love towards children in Prehistory, Antiquity and Middle Ages? Were children highly valued, or devalued? The answer will very much depend...

In Atenica near Čačak in today’s Serbia, in grave 2, located in the periphery of the impressive tumulus I, the grave of a younger male person of aristocratic,...

Taking into consideration the premodern birth and survival rates, the most underrepresented element in the archaeological record are the burials of infants and small children. However, among the...

There is a general perception that, in the Middle Ages, children were not valued by their families or by society as a whole. Perhaps no time in history...

Children were also made objects of admiration, particularly by being idealized (as “pure”) or sentimentalized (“sweet” and “funny”). This can be seen as a positive evaluation of children,...