Table of Contents
Introduction: religion and life cycles in early modern England – Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine and Tessa Whitehouse
Part I: Birth, childhood and youth
1 Second birth and the spiritual lifecycle in Protestant England – Alexandra Walsham
2 Prayer, pregnancy and print – Rebecca Whiteley
3 Maternal breastfeeding: providence and advocacy in seventeenth-century sermons and prescriptive literature – Lauren Cantos
4 Religious practice and the social worlds of eighteenth-century children, 1688 to 1800 – Mary Clare Martin
5 Intergenerational relationships in a family archive: adolescence, school and French polish – Caroline Bowden
Part II: Adulthood and everyday life
6 The secular dynamics of religious identity – Bernard Capp
7 The clergy and marriage in Restoration comedies – David Fletcher
8 Women, religion and early-modern life cycles – Elaine Hobby
9 Everyday religious and life-cycle events in the diaries of Richard Stonley – Zoe Hudson
10 Letter-writing, life-cycle events and the daily life of faith – Tessa Whitehouse
Part III: The dying and the dead
11 Birth, death and faith: Sir Thomas Aston at the deathbed of his wife – Rosemary Keep
12 Caring for the dying and the dead in the London Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities, 1656?1800 – Emily Vine
13 Temporality and the eternal afterlife in children’s hymns of the long eighteenth century – Nancy Jiwon Cho
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