Katie Barclay

The first book to examine the history of working-class courtship, marriage, family relations, and the many ways that marriages ended in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Scotland. Meer

This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars from history, literature and cultural studies, to reappraise how the early modern world reacted to the deaths of children. Meer

Offering insights on the wide range of sources that are available from across the globe and throughout history for the study of the history of emotions, this book provides students with a handbook for beginning their own research within the field. Meer

This book explores caritas, the idea of neighboury love, as a key ethic that shaped how early modern people lived, loved, and thought about the self. Meer