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1. Introduction: Reading Childhood Through Literature: Naomi Miller and Diane Purkiss.- 2. Adult Ideologies in Late-Medieval Advisory Literature: Anna Caughey.- 3. Learning to Talk: Colloquies and the Formation of Childhood Monastic Identity in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Rebecca King Cerling.- 4. Children Bewitched
Children Possessed: Three Early Modern Examples: Gerhild Williams.- 5. The Tudor Schoolroom, Antique Fables, and Fairy Toys: Catherine Belsey.- 6. Valuing New England Childhood through the Joyful Deaths of Cotton Mather's A Token for the Children of New England: Ivy Linton Stabell.- 7. Changeling Stories: The Child Substitution Motif in the Chester Mystery Cycle: Rose Alice Sawyer.- 8. Inducting Childhood: The Scripted Spontaneity of Self-Referential Child Players: Bethany Packard.- 9. The Child on Display in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair: Anna-Claire Simpson.- 10. 'The King shall live without an heir': Child Loss, Grief, and Recovery in Shakespeare's Late Romances: Kathryn M. Moncrief.- 11. Figural Agency: Reading the Child in Amis and Amoloun: Julie Nelson Couch.- 12. Writing Girls in Early Modern England: Jennifer Higginbotham.- 13. Other Maids: Religion, Race, and Relationships between Girls in Early Modern London: Kate Chedgzoy.- 14. The Philosophy and Literature of Childhood Cognition: John Milton and Margaret Cavendish: Lisa Walters.- 15. Children's Literary Cultures in Early Modern England (1500-1740): Margaret Reeves.- 16. Without a trace? Archaeology, Literature, and the Life and Death of Children in 5th
11th century England: Kirsty E. Squires.- 17. A Mother's Guilt: Female Responses to Child Death in High and Late Medieval England: Danielle Griego.- 18. 'How fair, how beautiful and great a prince': Royal Children in the Tudor Chronicles: Carole Levin and Andrea Nichols.- 19. 'My absent child': Ageless and Missing Offspring in Early Modern Literature': Sheila Cavanagh.- 20. Literary Legacies: Children's Reading and Writing in the Montagu Archive: Patricia Phillippy.- 21. Coming of Age as a Viking: Historical Children's Books and Gender: Katherine Langrish.- 22. Warm pants and wild places: domestic anxieties in Malory's Morte D'Arthur and T.H. White's The Once and Future King: Elly McCausland.- 23. Through the Mists of Time: Reflections on Recreating Medieval and Early Modern Texts for Modern Children: Marcia Williams.- 24. Ballad Land: Ellen Kushner.- 25. Sewing the Nettle Shirt, Pulling the Sword: Jane Yolen.
Children Possessed: Three Early Modern Examples: Gerhild Williams.- 5. The Tudor Schoolroom, Antique Fables, and Fairy Toys: Catherine Belsey.- 6. Valuing New England Childhood through the Joyful Deaths of Cotton Mather's A Token for the Children of New England: Ivy Linton Stabell.- 7. Changeling Stories: The Child Substitution Motif in the Chester Mystery Cycle: Rose Alice Sawyer.- 8. Inducting Childhood: The Scripted Spontaneity of Self-Referential Child Players: Bethany Packard.- 9. The Child on Display in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair: Anna-Claire Simpson.- 10. 'The King shall live without an heir': Child Loss, Grief, and Recovery in Shakespeare's Late Romances: Kathryn M. Moncrief.- 11. Figural Agency: Reading the Child in Amis and Amoloun: Julie Nelson Couch.- 12. Writing Girls in Early Modern England: Jennifer Higginbotham.- 13. Other Maids: Religion, Race, and Relationships between Girls in Early Modern London: Kate Chedgzoy.- 14. The Philosophy and Literature of Childhood Cognition: John Milton and Margaret Cavendish: Lisa Walters.- 15. Children's Literary Cultures in Early Modern England (1500-1740): Margaret Reeves.- 16. Without a trace? Archaeology, Literature, and the Life and Death of Children in 5th
11th century England: Kirsty E. Squires.- 17. A Mother's Guilt: Female Responses to Child Death in High and Late Medieval England: Danielle Griego.- 18. 'How fair, how beautiful and great a prince': Royal Children in the Tudor Chronicles: Carole Levin and Andrea Nichols.- 19. 'My absent child': Ageless and Missing Offspring in Early Modern Literature': Sheila Cavanagh.- 20. Literary Legacies: Children's Reading and Writing in the Montagu Archive: Patricia Phillippy.- 21. Coming of Age as a Viking: Historical Children's Books and Gender: Katherine Langrish.- 22. Warm pants and wild places: domestic anxieties in Malory's Morte D'Arthur and T.H. White's The Once and Future King: Elly McCausland.- 23. Through the Mists of Time: Reflections on Recreating Medieval and Early Modern Texts for Modern Children: Marcia Williams.- 24. Ballad Land: Ellen Kushner.- 25. Sewing the Nettle Shirt, Pulling the Sword: Jane Yolen.