This edited collection examines different aspects of the experience and significance of childhood, youth and family relations in minority religious groups in north-west Europe in the late medieval, Reformation and post-Reformation era. It aims to take a comparative approach, including chapters on Protestant, Catholic and Jewish communities. The chapters are organised into themed sections, on 'Childhood, religious practice and minority status', 'Family and responses to persecution', and 'Religious division and the family: co-operation and conflict'. Contributors to the volume consider issues such as religious conversion, the impact of persecution on childhood and family life, emotion and affectivity, the role of childhood and memory, state intervention in children's religious upbringing, the impact of confessionally mixed marriages, persecution and co-existence. Some chapters focus on one confessional group, whilst others make comparisons between them.

Autorentext

Tali Berner is a Lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is the author of Children and Childhood in Early Modern Ashkenaz (in Hebrew, 2017).

Lucy Underwood is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. Her previous publications include Childhood, Youth and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England (Palgrave, 2014).

Inhalt
IntroductionChildhood, Religious Practice and Minority StatusJewish Children and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Illustrations'All things necessary for their saluation'? The Dedham Ministers and the 'Puritan' Baptism Debates'Children of the Light': Childhood, Youth, and Dissent in Early Quakerism Childhood, Youth and Denominational Identity: Church, Chapel and Home in the Long Eighteenth CenturyFamily and Responses to PersecutionCross-Channel Conflict: The Challenges of Growing Up in Minority Calvinist Communities Across the ChannelA Web of Crosses and Mercies Interlaced: Breakdown and Consolidation of Family Patterns Amongst Loyalist Anglicans Under the Pressures of Civil War Childhood, Family and the Construction of English Catholic Histories of PersecutionReligious Division and the Family: Co-operation and ConflictEarly Modern Child Abduction in the Name of Religion.- Raising Children Across Religious Boundaries in the Dutch RevoltWhen They Come of Age: Religious Conversion and Puberty in Fifteenth-Century AshkenazConversion, Conscience, and Family Conflict in Early Modern EnglandConclusion