HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Middle Ages

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Professor L.Visano

Document Summary

For thousands of years religion and tradition declared that children are not humans. They were subject to the authority, especially of the father. And only recently have we had this idea that a child is a person with rights. The nature of a child is problematic - recurring theme. To some people, it is appropriate to sexually abuse a child. Nonsense of tradition when they deny the rights. A central and recurring theme in the studies is the problematic nature of being a inf person and the even more problematic nature of becoming an adult. That fundamental social institutions have shaped the dominant identity of children. Christianity viewed the child as evil through the middle ages. They were looked at with the idea of soiled with sin. They didn"t care of any physical, mental, emotional punishment onto the child. The child as evil was moved by negative/ evil consequences. Christianity deals a lot with the fall of adam and eve.