Nurture and Neglect: Childhood Sixteenth-Century Northern England

Using ecclesiastical and secular legal records to form its basis, hitherto an untapped resource for children’s voices, 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. will be of particular interest to scholars studying the history of childhood and the social history of England in the sixteenth-century.