It might be imagined that life was hard for children in medieval times. But play was important to them and it was recognised that they needed time for games, rhymes and toys to help them grow up.
In the next in this Woman's Hour series on childhood in the middle ages, Henrietta Otley speaks to Helen Cooper, Professor of English at University College Oxford, and Professor Nicholas Orme, the author of Medieval Children. Nicholas Orme, Medieval Children, Yale University Press; ISBN: 0300085419
