Religion and life cycles in early modern England / edited by Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine and Tessa Whitehouse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies ; 14.

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology--England--History.

Religion and sociology.

Life cycle, Human--Religious aspects.

Life cycle, Human.

Religion.

History.

England--Religion--16th century.

England.

England--Religion--17th century.

England--Religion--18th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 314 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Birth, childhood and youth

1. Second birth and the spiritual life cycle in Protestant England - Alexandra Walsham

2. Prayer, pregnancy and print - Rebecca Whiteley

3. Maternal breastfeeding: providence and advocacy in seventeenth-century sermons and prescriptive literature - Lauren Cantos

4. Religious practice and the social worlds of eighteenth-century children 1688 to 1800 - Mary Clare Martin

5. Intergenerational relationships in a family archive: adolescence, school and French polish - Caroline Bowden

pt. II Adulthood and everyday life

6. The secular dynamics of religious identity - Bernard Capp

7. The clergy and marriage in Restoration comedies - David Fletcher

8. Women, religion, and early modern life cycles - Elaine Hobby

9. Everyday religious and life-cycle events in the diaries of Richard Stonley - Zoe Hudson

10. Letter-writing, life-cycle events, and the daily life of faith - Tessa Whitehouse

pt. III The dying and the dead

11. Birth, death and faith: Sir Thomas Aston at the deathbed of his wife - Rosemary Keep

12. Caring for the dying and the dead in the London Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities, 1656-1800 - Emily Vine

13. Temporality and the eternal afterlife in children's hymns of the long eighteenth century - Nancy Jiwon Cho.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1526149230

9781526149237

OCLC:

1241730938

Publisher Number:

99989752882