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.

Explores different aspects of the experience and significance of childhood in minority religious groups in Europe in the Reformation and post-Reformation era Focuses specifically on the impact of religious conflict and difference on childhood Offers a fresh approach to the study of inter-confessional relations

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
Introduction.- Childhood, Religious Practice and Minority Status .- Jewish 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 Century.- Family and Responses to Persecution .- Cross-Channel Conflict: The Challenges of Growing Up in
Minority Calvinist Communities Across the Channel.- A 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 Persecution.- Religious Division and the Family: Co-operation and Conflict .- Early Modern Child Abduction in the Name of Religion.- Raising Children Across Religious Boundaries in the Dutch
Revolt.- When They Come of Age: Religious Conversion and Puberty
in Fifteenth-Century Ashkenaz.- Conversion, Conscience, and Family Conflict in Early Modern England.- Conclusion.