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oapen-20.500.12657-283972021-11-04T14:07:40Z Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe Barclay , Katie Reynolds , Kimberley Rawnsley, Ciara death children society bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology 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 great equaliser of the early modern period, affecting people of all ages and conditions. It is well recognised that the deaths of children struck at the heart of early modern families, yet less known is the variety of ways that not only parents, but siblings, communities and even nations, responded to childhood death. The contributors to this volume ask what emotional responses to child death tell us about childhood and the place of children in society. Placing children and their voices at the heart of this investigation, they track how emotional norms, values, and practices shifted across the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries through different religious, legal and national traditions. This collection demonstrates that child death was not just a family matter, but integral to how communities and societies defined themselves. Chapter 5 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. 2018-09-30 23:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T12:22:13Z 2020-04-01T12:22:13Z 2016 book 1001565 OCN: 971613354 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28397 eng Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.26530/OAPEN_1001565 10.26530/OAPEN_1001565 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 31fc2b24-309e-47a1-97fe-67949534a43e Palgrave Macmillan 257 Basingstoke open access
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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 great equaliser of the early modern period, affecting people of all ages and conditions. It is well recognised that the deaths of children struck at the heart of early modern families, yet less known is the variety of ways that not only parents, but siblings, communities and even nations, responded to childhood death. The contributors to this volume ask what emotional responses to child death tell us about childhood and the place of children in society. Placing children and their voices at the heart of this investigation, they track how emotional norms, values, and practices shifted across the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries through different religious, legal and national traditions. This collection demonstrates that child death was not just a family matter, but integral to how communities and societies defined themselves.
Chapter 5 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
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