Childhood and emotion : across cultures 1450 1800 Foreword Introduction Claudia Jarzebowski Communities Model children and pious desire in early enlightenment philanthropy Kelly Whitmer For the pleasure of babies and the sorrow if children : children and emotions in early modern Jewish communities Tali Berner Growing up in VOC Batavia : transcultural childhood in the world of the Durch East India Company Nicola Borchardt Narrations Self narratives as a source for the history of emotions Claudia Ulbrich Emotional socialization in early modern Germany Otto Ulbricht The exploration of the emotional selves of children in puritan autobiographical writings Paola Baseotto Childrens diaries as a source for the history of emotions Ariane Baggerman How children were supposed to feel : how children felt : England 1350 1550 Philippa Maddern Practices Childhood in a printing house : Bruno Basilius Margarethe Bonifacio Amerbach and the challenges of life in humanist Basle (1497 1508) Valentina Sebastiani Nature had formd thee fairest of thy kind : grieving dead children in England and Sweden c. 1650 1810 Marjo Kaartinen Deserters voices on childhood and emotion in 18th century France Naoko Seriu