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The collection of ideas, values, and beliefs known as the
Enlightenment fundamentally altered the ways in which the family
was understood. During this period (1650-1800), traditional family
roles were rethought, questioning much which had been taken for
granted, such as the innate nature of children. At the same time,
the Enlightenment also reinforced many long-held notions, applying
new ideas to perpetuate assumptions about gender and race. The
commercialization of agriculture, industrialization, and
urbanization, as well as the opportunities presented by expanding
education and the sale of domestic goods all impacted on the
family. Further, the continuing expansion of Western empires, the
ownership of slaves within American states, and the political
turmoil of the American and French revolutions all helped to shape
both the ideals and the experience of family life. A Cultural
History of Childhood and Family in the Age of Enlightenment
presents essays on family relationships, community, economy,
geography and the environment, education, life cycle, the state,
faith and religion, health and science, and world contexts.
A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat ...
or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen found the
3rd earl of Portsmouth a model gentleman and Lord Byron maintained
that, while the man was a fool, he was certainly no madman. Behind
closed doors, though, Portsmouth delighted in pinching his servants
so that they screamed, asked dairy-maids to bleed him with lancets
and was obsessed with attending funerals. After he'd lived this way
for years, in 1823 his own family set out to have him declared
insane. Still reeling from the madness of King George, society
could not tear itself away from what would become the longest,
costliest and most controversial insanity trial in British history.
The collection of ideas, values, and beliefs known as the
Enlightenment fundamentally altered the ways in which the family
was understood. During this period (1650-1800), traditional family
roles were rethought, questioning much which had been taken for
granted, such as the innate nature of children. At the same time,
the Enlightenment also reinforced many long-held notions, applying
new ideas to perpetuate assumptions about gender and race. The
commercialization of agriculture, industrialization, and
urbanization, as well as the opportunities presented by expanding
education and the sale of domestic goods all impacted on the
family. Further, the continuing expansion of Western empires, the
ownership of slaves within American states, and the political
turmoil of the American and French revolutions all helped to shape
both the ideals and the experience of family life. A Cultural
History of Childhood and Family in the Age of Enlightenment
presents essays on family relationships, community, economy,
geography and the environment, education, life cycle, the state,
faith and religion, health and science, and world contexts.
This 2007 text was the first single volume in recent years to
provide an overview and assessment of the most important research
that has been published on the English family in the past three
decades. Some of the most distinguished historians of family life,
together with the next generation of historians working in the
field, present previously unpublished archival research to shed
light on family ideals and experiences in the early modern period.
Contributions to this volume interrogate the definitions and
meanings of the term 'family' in the past, showing how the family
was a locus for power and authority, as well as personal or
subjective identity, and exploring how expectations as well as
realities of family behaviour could be shaped by ideas of
childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. This pioneering collection
of essays will appeal to scholars of early modern British history,
social history, family history and gender studies.
This text was the first single volume in recent years to provide an
overview and assessment of the most important research that has
been published on the English family in the past three decades.
Some of the most distinguished historians of family life, together
with the next generation of historians working in the field,
present previously unpublished archival research to shed light on
family ideals and experiences in the early modern period.
Contributions to this volume interrogate the definitions and
meanings of the term 'family' in the past, showing how the family
was a locus for power and authority, as well as personal or
subjective identity, and exploring how expectations as well as
realities of family behaviour could be shaped by ideas of
childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. This pioneering collection
of essays will appeal to scholars of early modern British history,
social history, family history and gender studies.
This book exposes the 'hidden' history of marital violence and
explores its place in English family life between the Restoration
and the mid-nineteenth century. In a time before divorce was easily
available and when husbands were popularly believed to have the
right to beat their wives, Elizabeth Foyster examines the variety
of ways in which men, women and children responded to marital
violence. For contemporaries this was an issue that raised central
questions about family life: the extent of men's authority over
other family members, the limitations of women's property rights,
and the problems of access to divorce and child custody. Opinion
about the legitimacy of marital violence continued to be divided
but by the nineteenth century ideas about what was intolerable or
cruel violence had changed significantly. This accessible study
will be invaluable reading for anyone interested in gender studies,
feminism, social history and family history.
This book exposes the 'hidden' history of marital violence and
explores its place in English family life between the Restoration
and the mid-nineteenth century. In a time before divorce was easily
available and when husbands were popularly believed to have the
right to beat their wives, Elizabeth Foyster examines the variety
of ways in which men, women and children responded to marital
violence. For contemporaries this was an issue that raised central
questions about family life: the extent of men's authority over
other family members, the limitations of women's property rights,
and the problems of access to divorce and child custody. Opinion
about the legitimacy of marital violence continued to be divided
but by the nineteenth century ideas about what was intolerable or
cruel violence had changed significantly. This accessible study
will be invaluable reading for anyone interested in gender studies,
feminism, social history and family history.
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