Bowden / Unknown / Vine Religion and life cycles in early modern England

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4924-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

This innovative, interdisciplinary collection addresses religion and the life course in England c. 1550–1800. Considering Catholic, Protestant and Jewish experiences of biological, social and religious life stages, it suggests new ways of framing the multiple, overlapping life cycles that early modern individuals experienced.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Bowden, Caroline

Vine, Emily

Whitehouse, Tessa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: religion and life cycles in early modern England – Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine and Tessa Whitehouse
Part I: Birth, childhood and youth
1 Second birth and the spiritual lifecycle in Protestant England – Alexandra Walsham
2 Prayer, pregnancy and print – Rebecca Whiteley
3 Maternal breastfeeding: providence and advocacy in seventeenth-century sermons and prescriptive literature – Lauren Cantos
4 Religious practice and the social worlds of eighteenth-century children, 1688 to 1800 – Mary Clare Martin
5 Intergenerational relationships in a family archive: adolescence, school and French polish – Caroline Bowden
Part II: Adulthood and everyday life
6 The secular dynamics of religious identity – Bernard Capp
7 The clergy and marriage in Restoration comedies – David Fletcher
8 Women, religion and early-modern life cycles – Elaine Hobby
9 Everyday religious and life-cycle events in the diaries of Richard Stonley – Zoe Hudson
10 Letter-writing, life-cycle events and the daily life of faith – Tessa Whitehouse
Part III: The dying and the dead
11 Birth, death and faith: Sir Thomas Aston at the deathbed of his wife – Rosemary Keep
12 Caring for the dying and the dead in the London Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities, 1656?1800 – Emily Vine
13 Temporality and the eternal afterlife in children’s hymns of the long eighteenth century – Nancy Jiwon Cho
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Bowden is Senior Research Fellow in History at Queen Mary University of London

Emily Vine is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham

Tessa Whitehouse is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London