Description
Early Modern Childhood
An Introduction
Early Modern Themes Series
Coordinator: French Anna
Language: EnglishSubject for Early Modern Childhood:
Keywords
Young Men; Family; La Lozana Andaluza; Pregnancy; Young Peaked; Authority; Early Modern Childhood; Social Order; Wet Nurse; Liturgy; Shakespeare’s Richard III; Scripture; Early Modern; Life Cycles; Spanish Golden Age Literature; baptism; Gold Cup; Education; Contemporary Society; Youth; Early Modern Family; Death; Children’s Salvation; Protestant; Isabel La; Catholic; Picaresque Literature; gender; Mother’s Bed Chamber; Illegitimacy; Boy Actor; Crime; Early Modern Spain; Witchcraft; Infant Salvation; Illness; Baptismal Blessing; War; Emergency Baptism; Portraiture; Baptism Ceremony; Drama; Birthing Chamber; Children’s Literature; Anne Buck; Popular press; English Catholics; family life; Midwifery Manuals; Christian cultures; parent–child relationship; emotional impact
Publication date: 10-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 10-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Early Modern Childhood is a detailed and accessible introduction to childhood in the early modern period, which guides students through every part of childhood from infancy to youth and places the early modern child within the broader social context of the period.
Drawing on the work of recent revisionist historians, the book scrutinises traditional historiographical views of early modern childhood, challenging the idea that the concept of ?childhood? didn?t exist in this period and that families avoided developing strong affections for their children because of the high death rate. Instead, this book reveals a more intricately detailed character of the early modern child and how childhood was viewed and experienced. Divided into five parts, it brings together the work of historians, art historians and literary scholars to discuss a variety of themes and questions surrounding each stage of childhood, including the household, pregnancy, infancy, education, religion, gender, illness and death. Chapters are also dedicated to the topics of crime, illegitimacy and children?s clothing, providing a broad and varied lens through which to view this subject.
Exploring the evolution in understanding of the early modern child, Early Modern Childhood is the ideal book for students of the early modern family, early modern childhood and early modern gender.
Part i: contexts; 1. Locating the early modern child; 2. The early modern family; 3. The household; Part ii: beginnings; 4. Conception, pregnancy and birth; 5. Infancy; 6. Schools and education; Part iii: identities; 7. Protestants; 8. Catholics; 9. Gender; Part iv: adversity; 10. Crime and disorder; 11. Illness and death; 12. Illegitimacy; Part v: representations; 13. Drama; 14. Children’s clothing; 15. Portraiture
Anna French is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Liverpool. She is author of Children of Wrath: Possession, Prophecy and the Young in Early Modern England (2015), general secretary of the European Reformation Research Group and Director of the Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.