Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England - Paperback

by Loretta Dolan (Author)

Using ecclesiastical and secular legal records to form its basis, hitherto an untapped resource for children's voices, Nurture and Neglect tackles a number of anomalies in the existing historiography surrounding the experience of children in urban and rural communities in sixteenth-century northern England. It addresses the adult-centred

Author Biography

Loretta Dolan is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia (UWA). She recently completed a PhD at UWA under the supervision of the late Professor Philippa Maddern and Dr Stephanie Tarbin, researching children and childrearing practices in the North of England, c. 1450-1603. She is the author of 'Child Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Northern England: The Emotional Undertones in the Legal Narratives' Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 20.3, (2015) and the forthcoming 'Poverty, Pilfering and Pleadings: The Microeconomics of Parental Deprivation in Northern England c. 1485-1603'.