Overview
- Draws on original material to reappraise early-modern responses to the death of children
- Recognises the significance of child death to early-modern families
- Asks what these responses tell us about the place of children in society
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood (PSHC)
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Chapter 5 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Katie Barclay is DECRA Fellow in the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of Love, Intimacy and Power, and numerous articles on family life and emotions.
Kimberley Reynolds is an award-winning author who founded the UK’s National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature and co-edited one of the first studies of representations of childhood death.
Ciara Rawnsley works at the University of Western Australia, and has published on Shakespeare and Emotions. After completing her PhD, she worked at the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
Editors: Katie Barclay, Kimberley Reynolds, Ciara Rawnsley
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57199-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57198-4Published: 13 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57199-1Published: 06 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6532
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 257
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Emotion, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Childhood, Adolescence and Society