Chapter: '‘Rapt Up with Joy’: Children’s Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England' from book: Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe

Valuable scholarship has been produced on parents’ responses to the deaths of children in early modern England, but the emotional experiences of the young themselves have rarely been explored. This chapter seeks to rectify this deficiency by viewing death through the child’s eyes. Taking advantage o...

সম্পূর্ণ বিবরণ

সংরক্ষণ করুন:
গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জীর বিবরন
প্রধান লেখক: Hannah Newton
বিন্যাস: Online
ভাষা:ইংরেজি
প্রকাশিত: Palgrave Macmillan 2021
বিষয়গুলি:
অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন:24630
ট্যাগগুলো: ট্যাগ যুক্ত করুন
কোনো ট্যাগ নেই, প্রথমজন হিসাবে ট্যাগ করুন!
_version_ 1869517960289189888
author Hannah Newton
author_browse Hannah Newton
author_facet Hannah Newton
author_sort Hannah Newton
collection Directory of Open Access Books
description Valuable scholarship has been produced on parents’ responses to the deaths of children in early modern England, but the emotional experiences of the young themselves have rarely been explored. This chapter seeks to rectify this deficiency by viewing death through the child’s eyes. Taking advantage of recent insights from the history of emotions, Newton argues that dying children expressed diverse and conflicting passions, from fear to ecstasy. The underlying question is to what extent children’s experiences differed from those of adults. While the range of emotions was similar, the preoccupations of children differed; these included a concern about surviving siblings, and a more vivid imagination of heaven. Through highlighting such distinctions, we come closer to what it was like to be an early modern child.
format Online
id doab-20.500.12854ir-63273
institution Directory of Open Access Books
language eng
publishDate 2021
publishDateRange 2021
publishDateSort 2021
publisher Palgrave Macmillan
publisherStr Palgrave Macmillan
record_format ojs
spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-632732024-03-25T18:29:25Z Chapter: '‘Rapt Up with Joy’: Children’s Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England' from book: Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe Hannah Newton D1-2009 BF1-990 history of emotions childhood early modern families thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose Valuable scholarship has been produced on parents’ responses to the deaths of children in early modern England, but the emotional experiences of the young themselves have rarely been explored. This chapter seeks to rectify this deficiency by viewing death through the child’s eyes. Taking advantage of recent insights from the history of emotions, Newton argues that dying children expressed diverse and conflicting passions, from fear to ecstasy. The underlying question is to what extent children’s experiences differed from those of adults. While the range of emotions was similar, the preoccupations of children differed; these included a concern about surviving siblings, and a more vivid imagination of heaven. Through highlighting such distinctions, we come closer to what it was like to be an early modern child. 2021-02-12T10:15:46Z 2021-02-12T10:15:46Z 2017-11-23 16:19:58 2017 chapter 24630 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63273 eng Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137571984 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-57199-1_5 Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57199-1_5 https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57199-1_5 d27cd9b0-53e1-403f-a4c8-b180427f6be6 9781137571984 9781137571991 20 open access
spellingShingle D1-2009
BF1-990
history of emotions
childhood
early modern families
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
Hannah Newton
Chapter: '‘Rapt Up with Joy’: Children’s Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England' from book: Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
title Chapter: '‘Rapt Up with Joy’: Children’s Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England' from book: Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
title_full Chapter: '‘Rapt Up with Joy’: Children’s Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England' from book: Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
title_fullStr Chapter: '‘Rapt Up with Joy’: Children’s Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England' from book: Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
title_full_unstemmed Chapter: '‘Rapt Up with Joy’: Children’s Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England' from book: Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
title_short Chapter: '‘Rapt Up with Joy’: Children’s Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England' from book: Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe
title_sort chapter rapt up with joy children s emotional responses to death in early modern england from book death emotion and childhood in premodern europe
topic D1-2009
BF1-990
history of emotions
childhood
early modern families
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
topic_facet D1-2009
BF1-990
history of emotions
childhood
early modern families
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
url 24630
work_keys_str_mv AT hannahnewton chapterraptupwithjoychildrensemotionalresponsestodeathinearlymodernenglandfrombookdeathemotionandchildhoodinpremoderneurope