Childhood, Youth and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Europe

Description

This edited collection examines different aspects of the experience and significance of childhood, youth and family relations in minority religious groups in north-west Europe in the late medieval, Reformation and post-Reformation era. It aims to take a comparative approach, including chapters on Protestant, Catholic and Jewish communities. The chapters are organised into themed sections, on 'Childhood, religious practice and minority status', 'Family and responses to persecution', and 'Religious division and the family: co-operation and conflict'. Contributors to the volume consider issues such as religious conversion, the impact of persecution on childhood and family life, emotion and affectivity, the role of childhood and memory, state intervention in children's religious upbringing, the impact of confessionally mixed marriages, persecution and co-existence. Some chapters focus on one confessional group, whilst others make comparisons between them. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction (Tali Berner, Lucy Underwood)....Pages 1-39 Front Matter ....Pages 41-41 Jewish Children and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Illustrations (Tali Berner)....Pages 43-74 ‘All things necessary for their saluation’? The Dedham Ministers and the ‘Puritan’ Baptism Debates (Anna French)....Pages 75-98 ‘Children of the Light’: Childhood, Youth, and Dissent in Early Quakerism (Naomi Pullin)....Pages 99-126 Childhood, Youth and Denominational Identity: Church, Chapel and Home in the Long Eighteenth Century (Mary Clare Martin)....Pages 127-164 Front Matter ....Pages 165-165 Cross-Channel Conflict: The Challenges of Growing Up in Minority Calvinist Communities Across the Channel (Susan Broomhall)....Pages 167-189 A Web of Crosses and Mercies Interlaced: Breakdown and Consolidation of Family Patterns Amongst Loyalist Anglicans Under the Pressures of Civil War (Fiona McCall)....Pages 191-221 Childhood, Family and the Construction of English Catholic Histories of Persecution (Lucy Underwood)....Pages 223-253 Front Matter ....Pages 255-255 Early Modern Child Abduction in the Name of Religion (Joel F. Harrington)....Pages 257-274 Raising Children Across Religious Boundaries in the Dutch Revolt (Jesse Sadler)....Pages 275-298 When They Come of Age: Religious Conversion and Puberty in Fifteenth-Century Ashkenaz (Ahuva Liberles)....Pages 299-318 Conversion, Conscience, and Family Conflict in Early Modern England (Bernard Capp)....Pages 319-340 Conclusion (Tali Berner, Lucy Underwood)....Pages 341-352 Back Matter ....Pages 353-362