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Early Modern Childhood: An Introduction book cover

1st Edition

Early Modern Childhood An Introduction

Edited By Anna French Copyright 2020
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

PART I: CONTEXTS

1. Locating the Early Modern Child

Anna French

2. The Early Modern Family

Katie Barclay

3. The Household

Tara Hamling

PART II: BEGINNINGS

4. Conception, Pregnancy and Birth

Daphna Oren-Magidor

5. Infancy

Anna French

6. Schools and Education

Alan Ross

PART III: IDENTITIES

7. Protestants

Alec Ryrie

8. Catholics

Lucy Underwood

9. Gender

Min Ji Kang

PART IV: ADVERSITY

10. Crime and Disorder

Paul Griffiths

11. Illness and Death

Adriana Benzaquén

12. Illegitimacy

Katie Barclay

　

PART V: REPRESENTATIONS

13. Drama

Katie Knowles

14. Clothing

Maria Hayward

15. Portraiture

Jane Eade

Biography

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.

 

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