Childhood in the English Renaissance
By: Anja Müller (ed.).
Contributors: Müller, Anja, 1969 September 24-
Publisher: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Trier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9783868214420
Subjects: Children in literature; Children in art; Congresses; Children; History
Notes: Proceedings of the conference Childhood in the English Renaissance, held February 2012 at the University of Siegen.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Childhood in the Renaissance : introductory remarks / Anja Müller; title: Rational perception versus bodily expression : negotiating grief, consolation and mourning in Early Modern childhood / Sonja Fielitz; title: "A white paper" : anamnesis and the character of the child in Early Modern English literature / Matthias Bauer; title: Childhood in the Early Modern stairs of life : envisioning age distinctions / Anja Müller; title: John Foxe's Book of Martyrs as children's literature / Bettina Boecker; title: "See my lords what hopes you store in him" : child characters in Jacobean revenge tragedies / Carolina Bauer; title: "To be [or not to be] boy eternal" : dichotomies of royal childhood in Shakespeare's histories / Imke Kimpel; title: Three Henries and the dashed hopes of the early Stuart dynasty / Barbara Bienias; title: Tudor and Jacobean mother-and-child portraits and their patrons : an overview / Martin Spies; title: Childhood denied : infanticide in archives and literature / Josephine Billingham; title: Conceptions of childhood in Renaissance midwife manuals between naturalistic and religious interpretations / Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Marcel Hartwig; title: Epilogue : Becoming child, becoming other : childhood as signifier / David Kennedy; title: The Janus child : a response / Peter van Dolen.