The Age of “Tender Nails”: How Bulgarians Discovered Childhood in the 17th-19th Centuries

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  • Popova Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum image/svg+xml Author

Keywords:

childhood; Ottoman rule; 17th-19th centuries; Enlightenment

Abstract

The book How Childhood Was Lived and Thought about by Bulgarians presents ideas on childhood in Bulgarian discourse of the 17th-19th centuries through an analysis of texts by the most prominent Enlightenment figures.

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Published

2025-09-26

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 3 (2025): NEGOTIATING TRADITION AND INNOVATION: Medical Pluralism and Healthcare Transformations in the 20th and 21st Centuries

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Book Reviews

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The Age of “Tender Nails”: How Bulgarians Discovered Childhood in the 17th-19th Centuries. (2025). BALKANISTIC WORLDS, 1(3), 304-308. https://journal.balkanistica.com/index.php/journal/article/view/68