Childhood and Emotion

<p>This collection addresses fundamental but rarely asked questions about social and family relations in the past by bringing together two emerging fields within cultural history - childhood and emotion - and provides avenues through which to approach their shared histories.</p> <p>Bringing together a wide-range of materials such as court records self-narratives and educational manuals across medieval to eighteenth century Europe and North America - childhood emerges as a function not of gender or age but rather of social relations. The contributors come a step closer to portraying emotions as they were thought to be experienced by the historical subjects. <em>Childhood and Emotion</em> establishes new benchmarks not only for the history of these linked subjects but also for the whole history of social relations.</p> <p> </p>