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Informationen zum Autor Loretta Dolan is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia (UWA). She recently completed a PhD at UWA under the supervision of the late Professor Philippa Maddern and Dr Stephanie Tarbin, researching children and childrearing practices in the North of England, c. 1450-1603. She is the author of ‘Child Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Northern England: The Emotional Undertones in the Legal Narratives’ Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies , 20.3, (2015) and the forthcoming ‘Poverty, Pilfering and Pleadings: The Microeconomics of Parental Deprivation in Northern England c. 1485-1603’. Zusammenfassung Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England addresses a number of anomalies in the existing historiography surrounding the experience of children in urban and rural communities in sixteenth-century northern England. In contrast to much recent scholarship that has focused on affective parent-child relationships, this study directly engages with the question of what sixteenth-century society actually constituted as nurture and neglect. Whilst many modern historians consider affection and love essential for nurture, contemporary ideas of good nurture were consistently framed in terms designed to instil obedience and deference to authority in the child, with the best environment in which to do this being the authoritative, patriarchal household. Using ecclesiastical and secular legal records to form its basis, hitherto an untapped resource for children’s voices, this book tackles important omissions in the historiography, including the regional imbalance, which has largely ignored the north of England and generalised about the experiences of the whole of the country using only sources from the south, and the adult-centred nature of the debate in which historians have typically portrayed the child as having little or no say in their own care and upbringing. Nurture and Neglect will be of particular interest to scholars studying the history of childhood and the social history of England in the sixteenth-century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Table of Contents List of Tables Abbreviations Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Interpreting the Sources Legal Process Ecclesiastical Courts Secular Courts Quarter Session Courts Chancery Courts Social Status of the Court Users Reading the Sources for Children Community Norms Reflected in the Sources Chapter 2 Notions of Nurture and Neglect in Adult–Child Relationships Forms of Communication Birth to Seven Years Responsibility of Adults in Regards to Children Notions of Nurture and Neglect Seven Years to Adolescence Responsibility of Adults in Regards to Children Notions of Nurture and Neglect for the Older Child Neglect of the Older Child Nurturing Discipline or Cruel Abuse Intended Audience of Advice Community ideals of Nurture and Neglect Chapter 3 Child Marriage Legal Definitions of Child Marriage Consistency of Practice Across the Dioceses Motivations for Child Marriage Role of Family and Friends Community Response to Child Marriage Social Class of Children Married Underage Lived Experiences of Children Married Underage Emotional Responses and Reactions Chapter 4 Education Contexts of Learning Types of Available Schooling Professionalisation of Teaching Participants in Formal Education Children’s Lived Experiences at School Chapter 5 Apprenticeship System of Apprenticeship Relationship Between Apprentice and Master Conflicts and Concerns Between Master and Apprentice Participants in Apprentic...
