Includes bibliographical references and index.

Philippe Aries and the Consequences: History of Childhood, Family Relations, and Personal Emotions: Where do we stand today? -- The Influence of Monastic Ideals upon Carolingian Conceptions of Childhood -- Mutterliebe aus weiblicher Perspektive: Zur Bedeutung von Affektivitèat in Frau Avas Leben Jesu (Maternal Love from a Female Perspective: On the Significance of Affection in Frau Ava's Leben Jesu) -- Victims or Martyrs: Children, Anti-Semitism, and the Stress of Change in Medieval England -- Joseph and the Amazing Christ-Child of Late-Medieval Legend -- The Tretiz of Walter of Bibbesworth: Cultivating the Vernacular -- The Seven Sages of Rome, Children's Literature, and the Auchinleck Manuscript -- Peter Abelard's Carmen ad Astralabium and Medieval Parent-Child Didactic Texts: The Evidence for Parent-Child Relationships in the Middle Ages -- Reflections of Childhood in Medieval Hagiographical Writing: The Case of Hartmann von Aue's Der arme Heinrich -- Why Did Lancelot Need an Education? -- Medieval Mothers and their Children: The Case of Isabeau of Bavaria -- Changing Contexts of Infanticide in Medieval English Texts -- Medieval Children: Treatment in Middle English Literature -- Margery Kempe and Her Son: Representing the Discourse of Family -- Fashioning Fatherhood: Leon Battista Alberti's Art of Parenting -- Art, Life, Charm and Titian's Portrait of Clarissa Strozzi -- Converso Children Under the Inquisitorial Microscope in the Seventeenth Century: What May the Sources Tell us about Their Lives? -- Educating Girls in Early Modern Europe and America -- The Child in the Classroom: Teaching a Course on the History of Childhood in Medieval/Renaissance Europe.

Although many researchers have taken a critical stance towards the theses on the history of childhood developed by Philippe Ariáes in 1960, this volume is the first comprehensive collection of studies with a psychological and emotional historical orientation to demonstrate convincingly the extent to which the relationship between parents and children was a fundamental element of European society in pre-modern times.

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