Early Modern Childhood is a detailed and accessible introduction to childhood in the early modern period, which guides students through every part of childhood
Illness in childhood was common in early modern England. Hannah Newton asks how sick children were perceived and treated by doctors and laypeople, examines the
This volume of 14 original essays by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800. The collection
What did childhood mean in early modern England? To answer this question, this book examines two key contemporary institutions: the school and the stage. The ri
Childhood is not only a biological age, it is also a social construct. The essays in this collection range chronologically from the fifteenth to the eighteenth