Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barclay, Katie (Editor), Reynolds, Kimberley (Editor), Rawnsley, Ciara (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
• Subjects: Psychology.; Great Britain > History.; Social history.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Social groups.; Emotions.; Emotion.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Social History.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.

This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars from history, literature and cultural studies, to reappraise how the early modern world reacted to the deaths of children. Child death was the...