Early Modern Childhood: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781138038424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 310 str.

Anna French

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.