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Children of Wrath: Possession, Prophecy and the Young in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New edition)
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Children of Wrath: Possession, Prophecy and the Young in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New edition)
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The spiritual status of the early modern child was often confused
and uncertain, and yet in the wake of the English Reformation
became an issue of urgent interest. This book explores questions
surrounding early modern childhood, focusing especially on some of
the extreme religious experiences in which children are documented:
those of demonic possession and godly prophecy. Dr French argues
that despite the fact that these occurrences were not typical
childhood experiences, they provide us with a window through which
to glimpse the world of early modern children. The work introduces
its readers to the dualistic nature of early modern perceptions of
their young - they were seen to be both close to devilish
temptations and to God's divine finger, as illustrated by published
accounts of possession and prophecy. These cases reveal to us
moments in which children could be granted authority or in which
writers and publishers framed children in positions of spiritual
agency. This can tell us much about how early modern society
perceived, imagined and depicted their young, and helps us to
revise the notion that early modern children's lives, which were
often fleeting, may have gone unregarded. Both contributing to, and
informed by, some of the most recent historiographical directions
taken by early modern history, this book engages with three key
areas: the history of extreme spiritual experience such as demonic
possession, the 'lived experience' of early modern religion and the
history of childhood. In this way, it offers the first scholarly
exploration of the dialogue between these three areas of current
and widespread historical interest which have, perhaps
surprisingly, not yet been considered together.
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