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Ryrie, Alec

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Anna French
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Some pioneering works have looked at the role of Protestantism in certain exceptional categories of children, such as martyrs, those involved in cases of witchcraft or possession, or—a category which embraced almost all children at some point—those facing serious illness. Early modern Protestantism was a heartfelt religion, but also an unapologetically cerebral one. A Protestant commonplace that the home was a little church and the head of the household its minister. Children, and servants who were themselves often children as the modern world counts these things, were often the majority of such a church’s congregation. Protestant children at many points of the social ladder, both boys and girls, were raised in regular Bible-reading as a discipline. The very earliest English Protestant primer provided a text for a table-grace ‘to be sayd of chyldrene’. The inward piety of early modern Protestant children is, however, both the most important and the most unreachable of subjects.

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Ryrie, A. (2019). Protestants. In A. French (Ed.), Early Modern Childhood: An Introduction. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315177380

Online Publication Date Oct 22, 2019
Publication Date 2019
Deposit Date Oct 27, 2021
Publicly Available Date Oct 27, 2021
Publisher Routledge
Series Title Early Modern Themes
Edition 1st ed.
Book Title Early Modern Childhood: An Introduction
Chapter Number 7
ISBN 9781315177380
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315177380
Publisher URL https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315177380-7/protestants-alec-ryrie

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