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- Explores different aspects of the experience and significance of childhood in minority religious groups in Europe in the Reformation and post-Reformation era
- Focuses specifically on the impact of religious conflict and difference on childhood
- Offers a fresh approach to the study of inter-confessional relations
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood (PSHC)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Childhood, Religious Practice and Minority Status
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Family and Responses to Persecution
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Religious Division and the Family: Co-operation and Conflict
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“One of the strengths of this book is the variety of the sources used, which allows for a greater insight into how the religious upheaval of early modern Europe affected children across different religions. … the chapters are expertly written and do much to highlight the religious upheaval of the early modern period in Europe and its resulting impact on children from minority religions.” (Loretta Dolan, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 16 (1), 2023)
“Childhood, Youth and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Europe should be of interest not only to those who study childhood, youth, and the family, but to anyone interested in minorities in medievaland early modern Europe. Readers interested in the history of emotions, identity formation, and migration—indeed, anyone who seeks a better understanding of interreligious conflicts and persecutions in premodern Europe—will also benefit from this collection.” (Eyal Levinson, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (4), October, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
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Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tali Berner
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University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Lucy Underwood
About the editors
Tali Berner is a Lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is the author of Children and Childhood in Early Modern Ashkenaz (in Hebrew, 2017).
Lucy Underwood is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. Her previous publications include Childhood, Youth and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England (Palgrave, 2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Childhood, Youth and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Europe
Editors: Tali Berner, Lucy Underwood
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29199-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29198-3Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29201-0Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29199-0Published: 11 December 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6532
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 362
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Cultural History, Social History, History of Religion