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The formation of the child in early modern Spain
Title
The formation of the child in early modern Spain / edited by Grace E. Coolidge.
ISBN
1315558041 (electronic bk.)
9781315558042 (electronic bk.)
1472428803
9781472428806
Publication
Burlington : Ashgate, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages : : illustrations.)
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Summary
Drawing on history, literature, and art to explore childhood in early modern Spain, the contributors to this collection argue that early modern Spaniards conceptualized childhood as a distinct and discrete stage in life which necessitated special care and concern. The volume contrasts the didactic use of art and literature with historical accounts of actual children, and analyzes children in a wide range of contexts including the royal court, the noble family, and orphanages. The volume explores several interrelated questions that challenge both scholars of Spain and scholars specializing in childhood. How did early modern Spaniards perceive childhood? In what framework (literary, artistic) did they think about their children, and how did they visualize those children's roles within the family and society? How do gender and literary genres intersect with this concept of childhood? How did ideas about childhood shape parenting, parents, and adult life in early modern Spain? How did theories about children and childhood interact with the actual experiences of children and their parents ? The group of international scholars contributing to this book have developed a variety of creative, interdisciplinary approaches to uncover children's lives, the role of children within the larger family, adult perceptions of childhood, images of children and childhood in art and literature, and the ways in which children and childhood were vulnerable and in need of protection. Studying children uncovers previously hidden aspects of Spanish history and allows the contributors to analyze the ideals and goals of Spanish culture, the inner dynamics of the Habsburg court, and the vulnerabilities and weaknesses that Spanish society fought to overcome.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
New Hispanisms : cultural and literary studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction / Grace E. Coolidge
Reproductive genesis : mothers and children in Martín Carrillo's elogios de mujeres insignes del Viejo testamento / Rosilie Hernández
Mothers and daughters in the romances of chivalry / MaCarmen Marín Pina
Fathers and sons in don Quixote / Anne J. Cruz
Paintings of the education of the Virgin Mary and the lives of girls in early modern Spain / Charlene Villaseñor Black
Childhood activities at the court of Philip III / Martha Hoffman
Isabel de Borbón and the education of Baltasar Carlos / Alejandra Franganillo
Mi hermana se cría muy sana y muy linda, me quiere mucho : infancy and childhood of the infantas María Teresa and Margarita María (1638-1666) / Laura Oliván Santaliestra
Growing up Carlos II : kingship and childhood in the court of the Spanish Habsburgs in late seventeenth-century Spain / Silvia Z. Mitchell
Good boys : the fifth dialogue in Pedro Lujan's coloquios matrimoniales / Darcy Donahue
Investing in the lineage : children in the early modern Spanish nobility, 1350-1750 / Grace E. Coolidge
Castigation and abuse of children in early modern Spain / Edward Behrend-Martínez
Containing risk : the integration and isolation of orphanage wards within eighteenth-century Seville / Valentina Tikoff
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