Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I Birth, childhood and youth
  • Second birth and the spiritual life cycle in Protestant England / Alexandra Walsham
  • Prayer, pregnancy and print / Rebecca Whiteley
  • Maternal breastfeeding: providence and advocacy in seventeenth-century sermons and prescriptive literature / Lauren Cantos
  • Religious practice and the social worlds of eighteenth-century children 1688 to 1800 / Mary Clare Martin
  • Intergenerational relationships in a family archive: adolescence, school and French polish / Caroline Bowden
  • pt. II Adulthood and everyday life
  • The secular dynamics of religious identity / Bernard Capp
  • The clergy and marriage in Restoration comedies / David Fletcher
  • Women, religion, and early modern life cycles / Elaine Hobby
  • Everyday religious and life-cycle events in the diaries of Richard Stonley / Zoe Hudson
  • Letter-writing, life-cycle events, and the daily life of faith / Tessa Whitehouse
  • pt. III The dying and the dead
  • Birth, death and faith: Sir Thomas Aston at the deathbed of his wife / Rosemary Keep
  • Caring for the dying and the dead in the London Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities, 1656-1800 / Emily Vine
  • Temporality and the eternal afterlife in children's hymns of the long eighteenth century / Nancy Jiwon Cho.