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A cultural history of childhood and family in the early modern age / Sandra Cavallo and Silvia Evangelisti (eds).
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--History--15th century.
- Families.
- Families--History--16th century.
- Families--History--17th century.
- Children--History--15th century.
- Children.
- Children--History--16th century.
- Children--History--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.
- Summary:
- "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. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Childhood and Family set, this volume presents essays on family relationships, community, economy, geography and the environment, education, life cycle, the state, faith and religion, health and science, and world contexts."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns
- ISBN:
- 9781350049659 (online)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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