“Away with all my pleasant things in the world…”: model death‐bed accounts of two young victims of the plague of 1664 in the Dutch town of Leyden

Groenendijk, L.F.; Lieburg, F.A. van; Exalto, J.

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“…For the more educated, the ancient Stoics were a model in line with the Christian ideal of resignation (R. Dekker 2000, 132-138). In practice, not everybody could hold to this ideal, as for example is revealed clearly by religious deathbed-accounts of children in which emotional expressions of a highly personal and intimate character show intense parental affection and sorrow (Groenendijk et al 2010). Gradually the prescribed Christian-stoic attitude towards death came under discussion.…”

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“Cheerful Angels Looking Down on Us”: Parental Emotions in Diaries about the Illness and Death of Infants and Young Children (1780-1880)

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“Cheerful Angels Looking Down on Us”: Parental Emotions in Diaries about the Illness and Death of Infants and Young Children (1780-1880)

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Alphabet, Bibel, Katechismus: Das ABC der vormodernen Grundschule in den Niederlanden

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“Closer to God”: Child Death in Historical Perspective

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Those working within the sub-field of the modern history of childhood have rarely taken the dead child as their starting point. However, in a secularising, post-Enlightenment world, elites pursuing “progress” contemporaneously, and very publicly, reinterpreted death in relation to redefinitions of childhood as evidence of the divine. Dead children featured prominently within public modern mourning practices until, late in the nineteenth century scientific explorations of child death drove societies to occlude the presence of dead children. As infant mortality rates fell, perceptions of children as a dangerous, unstable presence, and a threat to the nation grew. New spaces emerged to receive and conceal dead children. New literary and visual cultures recast living children’s relationship with death. And in the early twentieth century accidental deaths in commercial space, in reformatories, and within the home inspired powerful debates over the future of childhood and society. This article surveys recent literature, raises key themes, and introduces the articles featured in this special issue on the relatively underresearched theme of child death.

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“Away with all my pleasant things in the world…”: model death‐bed accounts of two young victims of the plague of 1664 in the Dutch town of Leyden

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“Cheerful Angels Looking Down on Us”: Parental Emotions in Diaries about the Illness and Death of Infants and Young Children (1780-1880)

“Cheerful Angels Looking Down on Us”: Parental Emotions in Diaries about the Illness and Death of Infants and Young Children (1780-1880)

Alphabet, Bibel, Katechismus: Das ABC der vormodernen Grundschule in den Niederlanden

“Closer to God”: Child Death in Historical Perspective

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