Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Early Modern Age

Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is author of Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy and Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy and editor of Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine, and Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe.Silvia Evangelisti is Lecturer in European History at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is author of Nuns: A History of Convent Life 1400–1750 and editor of Unmarried Lives: Italy and Europe, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries and Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe.

• IllustrationsGeneral Editors’ Preface IntroductionSandra Cavallo, Royal Holloway, UK and Silvia Evangelisti, University of East Anglia, UK1 Family Relationships Sandra Cavallo, Royal Holloway, UK2 Community Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel3 Economy Cordelia Beattie, University of Edinburgh, UK4 Geography and the Environment Marta Ajmar-Wollheim, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK5 Education Anna Bellavitis, University of Rouen, France6 Life Cycle Philippa Maddern and Stephanie Tarbin, both University of Western Australia, Australia7 The State Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin, USA8 Faith and Religion Silvia Evangelisti, University of East Anglia,UK9 Health and Science Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia, Australia10 World Contexts James Casey, formerly University of East Anglia, UKNotes Bibliography Contributors Index