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Month: <span>June 2019</span>

Month: June 2019

education & learning, history, myth and legend, poetry, readers & book owners, religion & devotion, Scotland, Scots

‘myn yonge barne’, or the Child on the Shore: Growing Up in Medieval Scots Literature

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  Certain things stay with you. I have always been touched by this description which I came across a long time ago. It’s from a narrative of the life of Mary Magdalene — found in a late 14th century Scots collection of saints’ lives — and portrays a moment of child’s play. …

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‘Riding the First Wave of Children’s Literature’

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Kathryn Downing, a Masters student in Book History and Material Culture at the University of Edinburgh, spent the spring amidst the pre-1850 book collections at the Museum of Childhood. You can read her fascinating reflections on the different trends and impulses in children’s literature which she observed at the Museum’s …

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