Children Remembered: Responses to Untimely Death in the Past

by Robert Woods

Children Remembered discusses the relationship between parents and children in the past. It focuses on the ways in which adults responded to the untimely deaths of children, whether and how they expressed their grief. The study engages with the hypothesis of 'parental indifference' associated with the French cultural historian Philippe Ari s by analysing the changing risk of mortality since the sixteenth century and assessing its consequences. It...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846310210
• ISBN13: 9781846310218
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.8"