A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Early Modern Age

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. A ltural History of Childhood and Family in the Early Modern Age 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.>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sandra Cavallo, Silvia Evangelisti
• Con la collaborazione di: Sandra Cavallo (Editore), Silvia Evangelisti (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.01.2014
• EAN: 9781472554697
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-5469-7
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 168 mm x 242 mm x 14 mm
• Serie: The Cultural Histories Series
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918