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A Will of their own? Children's Agency and Child Labour in Byzantium
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2017
unpublished
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This paper examines the relation between three concepts: a child's will, children's agency and child labour. Addressing the current debate about children's agency, this paper shows how these concepts were developed in Byzantine society in order to advance a religious agenda that encouraged the child to run away from home in favour of a new life in a monastery. Children were attributed with a will of their own and acted upon it before they reached the age of puberty. This perspective took the
doi:10.21001/itma.2017.11.05
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