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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowden, Caroline, editor.

Vine, Emily, editor.

Whitehouse, Tessa, editor.

Series:

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology--England--History.

Religion and sociology.

Life cycle, Human--Religious aspects.

Life cycle, Human.

England--Religion--16th century.

England.

England--Religion--17th century.

England--Religion--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 314 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This innovative, interdisciplinary collection addresses religion and the life course in England c. 1550-1800. Considering Catholic, Protestant and Jewish experiences of biological, social and religious life stages, it suggests new ways of framing the multiple, overlapping life cycles that early modern individuals experienced.

Contents:

pt. I Birth, childhood and youth

Second birth and the spiritual life cycle in Protestant England / Alexandra Walsham

Prayer, pregnancy and print / Rebecca Whiteley

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

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

Intergenerational relationships in a family archive: adolescence, school and French polish / Caroline Bowden

pt. II Adulthood and everyday life

The secular dynamics of religious identity / Bernard Capp

The clergy and marriage in Restoration comedies / David Fletcher

Women, religion, and early modern life cycles / Elaine Hobby

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

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

pt. III The dying and the dead

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

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

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526149220

1526149222

9781526149244

1526149249

OCLC:

1374866775