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A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Early Modern Age
Sandra Cavallo (Ed.)
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
254
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847887962
SKU
V9781847887962
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About Sandra Cavallo (Ed.)
Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is author of Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy and Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy and editor of Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe; Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine; and Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern ... Read more
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