Death, Emotion and Childhood in Premodern Europe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Small Graves: Histories of Childhood, Death and Emotion

Chapter 2 ‘he nas but seven yeer olde’: Emotions in Boy Martyr Legends of Later Medieval England

Chapter 3 Rhetorics of Death and Resurrection: Child Death in Late-Medieval English Miracle Tales

Chapter 4 Beholding Suffering and Providing Care: Emotional Performances on the Death of Poor Children in Sixteenth-Century French Institutions

Chapter 5 ‘Rapt Up with Joy’: Children’s Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England

Chapter 7 Memorials and Expressions of Mourning: Portraits of Dead Children in Seventeenth-Century Sweden

Chapter 8 Child-Killing and Emotion in Early Modern England and Wales

Chapter 9 Grief, Faith and Eighteenth-Century Childhood: The Doddridges of Northampton

Chapter 10 Responsibility and Emotions: Parental, Governmental and Almighty Responses to Infant Deaths in Denmark in the Mid-Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Chapter 11 Child Death and Children’s Emotions in Early Sunday School Reward Books

Chapter 12 Childhood Death in Modernity: Fairy Tales, Psychoanalysis, and the Neglected Significance of Siblings