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By combining politics, culture, theology and psychology in this way
- and by complementing the resulting narrative with key primary
sources from the period - this book arms readers to study, explore
and understand the British Reformations in new and important ways.
Covering England, Scotland and Wales but placing Britain into the
wider context of Europe, this book provides students which a
comprehensive study of how the British Isles and its people were
affected by the Reformation. Reformation was a process, not an
event and this book charts both the Protestant and Catholic
Reformations which took place under Henry VIII, Mary I and
Elizabeth I to show students new to the period how these events
shaped the course of the sixteenth century.
By combining politics, culture, theology and psychology in this way
- and by complementing the resulting narrative with key primary
sources from the period - this book arms readers to study, explore
and understand the British Reformations in new and important ways.
Covering England, Scotland and Wales but placing Britain into the
wider context of Europe, this book provides students which a
comprehensive study of how the British Isles and its people were
affected by the Reformation. Reformation was a process, not an
event and this book charts both the Protestant and Catholic
Reformations which took place under Henry VIII, Mary I and
Elizabeth I to show students new to the period how these events
shaped the course of the sixteenth century.
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.
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
childhood, challenging the idea that the concept of 'childhood'
didn't exist in this period and that families avoided developing
strong affections for their children because of the high death
rate. Instead, this book reveals a more intricately detailed
character of the early modern child and how childhood was viewed
and experienced. Divided into five parts, it brings together the
work of historians, art historians and literary scholars to discuss
a variety of themes and questions surrounding each stage of
childhood, including the household, pregnancy, infancy, education,
religion, gender, illness and death. Chapters are also dedicated to
the topics of crime, illegitimacy and children's clothing,
providing a broad and varied lens through which to view this
subject. Exploring the evolution in understanding of the early
modern child, Early Modern Childhood is the ideal book for students
of the early modern family, early modern childhood and early modern
gender.
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
childhood, challenging the idea that the concept of 'childhood'
didn't exist in this period and that families avoided developing
strong affections for their children because of the high death
rate. Instead, this book reveals a more intricately detailed
character of the early modern child and how childhood was viewed
and experienced. Divided into five parts, it brings together the
work of historians, art historians and literary scholars to discuss
a variety of themes and questions surrounding each stage of
childhood, including the household, pregnancy, infancy, education,
religion, gender, illness and death. Chapters are also dedicated to
the topics of crime, illegitimacy and children's clothing,
providing a broad and varied lens through which to view this
subject. Exploring the evolution in understanding of the early
modern child, Early Modern Childhood is the ideal book for students
of the early modern family, early modern childhood and early modern
gender.
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