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Publication

2016 - Springer Nature, Basingstoke

Word Count

5,250 words, Guess

Page Count

21 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781137571991
  • ISBN-101137571993
  • Better World Books9781137571991
  • Open LibraryOL31370704M

Classifications

  • LCCBF531-593

Description

This chapter takes advantage of recent insights from the history of emotions to offer a fresh perspective on children’s emotional responses to death. Drawing on a range of printed and archival sources, it argues that children expressed diverse and conflicting emotions, from fear and anxiety, to excitement and ecstasy. In contrast to Houlbrooke and Stannard, I have found that children’s responses seem to have changed little over the early modern period. This continuity is largely due to the endurance of the Christian doctrine of salvation, with its hauntingly divergent fates of heaven and hell.

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