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Nurture and Neglect

Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England addresses a number of anomalies in the existing historiography surrounding the experience of children in urban and rural communities in sixteenth-century northern England. In contrast to much recent scholarship, which has focused on affective parentchild relationships, this study directly engages with the question of what sixteenth-century society actually constituted as nurture and neglect. Whilst many modern historians consider affection and love essential for nurture, contemporary ideas of good nurture were consistently framed in terms designed to instil obedience and deference to authority in the child, with the best environment in which to do this being the authoritative, patriarchal household.

Using ecclesiastical and secular legal records, hitherto an untapped resource for childrens voices, to form its basis, this book tackles important omissions in the historiography, including the regional imbalance, which has largely ignored the north of England and generalised about the experiences of the whole of the country using only sources from the south, and the adult-centred nature of the debate, in which historians have typically portrayed the child as having little or no say in their own care and upbringing. Nurture and Neglect will be of particular interest to scholars studying the history of childhood and the social history of England in the sixteenth century.

Loretta Dolan is an honorary research fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia (UWA). She recently completed a Ph.D. 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. 14501603. 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. 14851603.

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Names: Dolan, Loretta, author

Title: Nurture and neglect : childhood in sixteenth-century Northern England / Loretta Dolan.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016009868| ISBN 9781472470188 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315535692 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Children--England--Social conditions--16th century. | Children--England--History--16th century. | Families--England--History-- 16th century.

Classification: LCC HQ792.G7 D65 2017 | DDC 305.23094209/031--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016009868

ISBN: 978-1-4724-7018-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-53569-2 (ebk)

Dedication: For my parents, James and Anna Alexander. In memory of Philippa Maddern, a truly inspirational teacher and supervisor.

This book started life as a Ph.D. thesis in 2010 under the supervision of Professor Philippa (Pip) Maddern and Dr Stephanie Tarbin at the University of Western Australia (UWA). To both supervisors, I am indebted not only for their expertise, enthusiasm and encouragement, but also their friendship. Sadly, Pip died before my thesis was returned from the examiners but I am always reminded of her cheerful countenance and willingness to debate aspects of sixteenth-century childhood with me as I read the pages in this book. Stephanie Tarbin remains a good friend and I am indebted to her for her ongoing advice in relation to the preparation of this book. In addition to Pips and Stephanies work, I have drawn on the works of many historians of childhood, as my footnotes indicate, and I have benefitted greatly from their insights.

The idea of studying children in late medieval and early modern northern England was in part due to my experience as a history undergraduate at the University of Chester and exposure to the wonderful archives that survive in the county and diocese repository in the city. My decision to expand the geographical area from Chester northwards and eastwards means that I am indebted to the hard-working staff at a number of archives too many to mention who provided much-needed assistance on my research trips to the UK. Those same research trips would not have been possible if it had not been for financial assistance from the School of Humanities at UWA, and the many, generous family and friends who considerately looked after me when I was in England. Thanks must also go to Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, where parts of have previously been published.

Finally, I must acknowledge my family. I am grateful for the wholehearted support of my husband, Chris, and my children, Alasdair, Eloise and Georgina, who have embraced sixteenth-century childhood over the last four or five years, despite the disruption it has occasionally caused in their own household. And to my parents, James and Anna Alexander, both sadly deceased, I am forever indebted for my own nurturing childhood in twentieth-century northern England.

Loretta A. Dolan

Perth, Australia

Aris, Centuries	Aris, Philippe, Centuries of Childhood (London: Jonathan Cape, 1962)
BIA	Borthwick Institute for Archives
CALSS	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Services
CROK	Cumbria Record Office, Kendal
DCA	Durham Cathedral Archives
DNB	Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004), available online at www.oxforddnb.com
DUSC	Durham University Special Collections
EYLA	Explore York Libraries and Archives
LRO	Lancashire Record Office
LVRO	Liverpool Record Office
TNA	Kew, The National Archives

Yet the common sort of parents think that they have done their duty toward their children abundantly, if they keep them from fire and water, and from other dangers; if they cleanly apparel them; if they give them meat and drink enough.1

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