The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time

ISBN-13: 9780367404000 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 234 str.

Ellen J. Kendall; Ross Kendall

Opis

Applys an interdisciplinary perspective to periods ranging from the Prehistoric to the Modern, to inform a wider understanding of the term 'family' and the implications of family dynamics for children and their social networks in the past. Contributors are from a wide range of subject areas.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Slavery, emancipation, and the construction of family on San Salvador, The Bahamas  3. Alloparenting adolescents: evaluating the social and biological impacts of leprosy on young people in Saxo-Norman England (9^th to 12^th centuries AD) through cross-disciplinary models of care  4. Blended or constructed families? Family, neighbourhood, and domestic space in early modern England  5. Rousseau and the imagery of the la mère éducatrice in late 18^th century French art  6. Mother-love in the time of malaria: the politics of internal colonisation, endemic disease, and parent-child relations in Britain  7. Children in the attic: family, emotion, and material culture in a post-medieval liminal space  8. Poisoned pregnancies: consequences of prenatal lead exposure in relation to infant mortality in the Roman Empire  9. ‘Guarded treasures’: child health, care, and loss in urban families from the mid-18^th to 19^th century London  10. We’re all in this together: accessing the maternal-infant relationship in prehistoric Vietnam