Childhood, Youth and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9783030292010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 362 str.

Tali Berner; Lucy Underwood

Recenzje

"One of the strengths of this book is the variety of the sources used, which allows for a greater insight into how the religious upheaval of early modern Europe affected children across different religions. ... the chapters are expertly written and do much to highlight the religious upheaval of the early modern period in Europe and its resulting impact on children from minority religions." (Loretta Dolan, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 16 (1), 2023)

"Childhood, Youth and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Europe should be of interest not only to those who study childhood, youth, and the family, but to anyone interested in minorities in medieval and early modern Europe. Readers interested in the history of emotions, identity formation, and migration-indeed, anyone who seeks a better understanding of interreligious conflicts and persecutions in premodern Europe-will also benefit from this collection." (Eyal Levinson, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (4), October, 2021)

Spis treści

Introduction

Childhood, Religious Practice and Minority Status

Jewish Children and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Illustrations

‘All things necessary for their saluation’? The Dedham Ministers and the ‘Puritan’ Baptism Debates

‘Children of the Light’: Childhood, Youth, and Dissent in Early Quakerism Childhood, Youth and Denominational Identity: Church, Chapel and Home in the Long Eighteenth Century

Family and Responses to Persecution

Cross-Channel Conflict: The Challenges of Growing Up in Minority Calvinist Communities Across the Channel

A Web of Crosses and Mercies Interlaced: Breakdown and Consolidation of Family Patterns Amongst Loyalist Anglicans Under the Pressures of Civil War Childhood, Family and the Construction of English Catholic Histories of Persecution

Religious Division and the Family: Co-operation and Conflict

Early Modern Child Abduction in the Name of Religion.- Raising Children Across Religious Boundaries in the Dutch Revolt

When They Come of Age: Religious Conversion and Puberty in Fifteenth-Century Ashkenaz

Conversion, Conscience, and Family Conflict in Early Modern England

Conclusion

O autorze

Tali Berner is a Lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is the author of Children and Childhood in Early Modern Ashkenaz (in Hebrew, 2017).

Lucy Underwood is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. Her previous publications include Childhood, Youth and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England (Palgrave, 2014).

Blurb

This edited collection examines different aspects of the experience and significance of childhood, youth and family relations in minority religious groups in north-west Europe in the late medieval, Reformation and post-Reformation era. It aims to take a comparative approach, including chapters on Protestant, Catholic and Jewish communities. The chapters are organised into themed sections, on 'Childhood, religious practice and minority status', 'Family and responses to persecution', and 'Religious division and the family: co-operation and conflict'.  Contributors to the volume consider issues such as religious conversion, the impact of persecution on childhood and family life, emotion and affectivity, the role of childhood and memory, state intervention in children's religious upbringing, the impact of confessionally mixed marriages, persecution and co-existence.  Some chapters focus on one confessional group, whilst others make comparisons between them.