A cultural history of childhood and family in the early modern age / edited by Sandra Cavallo and Silvia Evangelisti.

Date:
2014
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"The period spanning the 15th to the 17th centuries saw an unprecedented interest in childrearing and the family. Renaissance humanist thought valued the education of children while promoting the family as a mirror of a well-ordered society, based on class, gender, and age hierarchies. Protestant and Catholic reformers and state-sponsored disciplinary measures further reinforced authority within the family, with marriage seen as a primary instrument for moralizing sexual customs. The proliferation of printed books and artworks representing the family popularized models of domestic life across Europe and its newly acquired colonies. At the same time, high mortality, repeated wars, poverty, increased migration, and geographical mobility severely undermined these idealized notions of family and childhood, giving rise to a wide range of unconventional and highly unstable households."--Publisher website.

Publication/Creation

2014

Physical description

xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (page 203-239) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Sandra Cavallo and Silvia Evangelisti -- 1. Family relationships / Sandra Cavallo -- 2. Community / Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos -- 3. Economy / Cordelia Beattie -- 4. Geography and the environment / Marta Ajmar-Wollheim -- 5. Education / Anna Bellavitis -- 6. Life cycle / Philippa Maddern and Stephanie Tarbin -- 7. The State / Julie Hardwick -- 8. Faith and religion / Silvia Evangelisti -- 9. Health and science / Susan Broomhall -- 10. World contexts / James Casey.

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    History of Medicine
    UT.3.AA4-6
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ISBN

  • 9781472554697
  • 1472554698