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Looking forward from Ariès? Pictorial and material evidence for the history of childhood and family life

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Anthony Burton
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Continuity and Change , Volume 4 , Special Issue 2: SPECIAL ISSUE: THE CHILD IN HISTORY , August 1989 , pp. 203 - 229
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