TY - JOUR
T1 - Conceptualising childhood as a relational status: parenting adult children in sixteenth-century England
AU - Cannon, Maria
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - This article explores the status of child as a relational one, defined by the power dynamics between parents and children rather than the young age of the individual. This approach complicates historiographical perspectives on the transition between childhood and adulthood, usually defined by historians as independence from parental regulation. Analysis of family correspondence from early modern England is used as a case study to explore conflicting patriarchal ideals that encouraged individuals to become independent householders, but also venerated filial obedience. It shows the broader application of this research to historians considering age as a category of analysis.
AB - This article explores the status of child as a relational one, defined by the power dynamics between parents and children rather than the young age of the individual. This approach complicates historiographical perspectives on the transition between childhood and adulthood, usually defined by historians as independence from parental regulation. Analysis of family correspondence from early modern England is used as a case study to explore conflicting patriarchal ideals that encouraged individuals to become independent householders, but also venerated filial obedience. It shows the broader application of this research to historians considering age as a category of analysis.
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/continuity-and-change/article/conceptualising-childhood-as-a-relational-status-parenting-adult-children-in-sixteenthcentury-england/7BA4E1CBCB17D8CDE47B68D6E3E9B32C
U2 - 10.1017/S0268416021000242
DO - 10.1017/S0268416021000242
M3 - Article
SN - 0268-4160
VL - 36
SP - 309
EP - 330
JO - Continuity and Change: A Journal of Social Structure, Law and Demography in Past Societies
JF - Continuity and Change: A Journal of Social Structure, Law and Demography in Past Societies
IS - 3
ER -