Childhood and Emotion: Across Cultures 1450-1800

Synopsis

How did children feel in the Middle Ages and early modern times? How did adults feel about the children around them? This collection addresses these fundamental but rarely asked questions about social and family relations by bringing together two emerging fields within cultural history – childhood and emotion – and provides avenues through which to approach their shared histories. Bringing together a wide range of material and sources such as court records, self-narratives and educational manuals, this collection sheds a new light on the subject. The coverage ranges from medieval to eighteenth-century Europe and North America, and examines Catholic, Protestant, Puritan and Jewish communities. Childhood emerges as a function not of gender or age, but rather of social relations. Emotions, too, appear differently in source-driven studies in that they derive not from modern assumptions but from real, lived experience. Featuring contributions from across the globe, Childhood and Emotion comes a step closer to portraying emotions as they were thought to be experienced by the historical subjects. This book will establish new benchmarks not only for the history of these linked subjects but also for the whole history of social relations. 　

Copyright:

2014

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781317913993

Related ISBNs:

9781315850870, 9780415831956, 9780415831956, 9780415831963, 9780415831963

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/02/20

Copyrighted By:

Claudia Jarzebowski, Thomas Max Safley

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Claudia Jarzebowski

Edited by:

Thomas Max Safley