[MR] About that "They die Young" myth

[Claire V. Basney]

That is just what I was going to say.  Children did lots of lovely things,
like toddle out into streets and get eaten by pigs, or fall into basins of
soup or soap, or even drown in sewage troughs.  I believe these examples
are actually from the aforementioned book.  

Just like today: children looked after at home have varying degrees of
"quality care."  

For my two cents worth...
Lady Eleanor 
AKA Claire Basney

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Claire V. Basney
"A freelance is someone who is paid per word... per piece... or perhaps!"


On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robert Busek wrote:

> Accidents involving children were also a problem.  Check out Barbara Hanawalt's *The Ties That Bound*, which uses coroner's rolls to get an idea of the dynamics of medieval life in 14th-15th century England.  A good source, if you keep in mind that the unique source material.
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> A part of childhood then was the 'resources' to survive were greater as you survived longer. Infant-cide and the very sickly going into mid-winter would likely receive less of the now more valued 'resources'.  This was a short segment of a Discovery Channel special.  
> The research might look at the seasons of death, sorted by age & sex.    Ru
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>   I read an interesting list of ages at death of some well-known medieval 
>   persons, and thought you'd be interested. We all know that the life 
>   expectancy was considerably lower than in modern times, but I, for one, need 
>   a reminder that it didn't mean it was lead to the perception of as "being 
>   old" at 45 (except in the minds of teenagers and children, of course! ) 
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