Caritas by Katie Barclay

Caritas by Katie Barclay

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.

With Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self, Barclay offers a sensitive and thorough account of social life in eighteenth-century Scotland..Shuttling between public customs and private experiences, Barclay's nuanced examination of the interchange between the communal norms of caritas and the construction of the self is persuasive and provocative. * Evan Gurney, University of North Carolina, Journal of British Studies *
Caritas is a sensitively researched and sophisticated book, and will be of interest to students and scholars interested in the lives of ordinary people during the early modern period...The clearest strength of this book is that Barclay shines a light on a broad section of Scottish society who have traditionally been overlooked - from illegitimate children striving for parental love and affection to wandering travellers seeking shelter, comfort, and acceptance far from home. * Rebecca Mason, The Journal of the Social History Society *
There are many themes in this book that will be of interest to historians working on marriage, childhood and youth, pregnancy, infanticide and rape. There are also fascinating insights into notions of privacy and secrecy, and the practices of neighbourhood socialising, gossip and drinking. Barclay excels at uncovering the details of the lives of the poor, and these are dispersed throughout the book, through brief examples as well as more extended life stories. * Elizabeth Foyster, University of Cambridge, Family & Community History *

Katie Barclay is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Associate Professor in History, University of Adelaide. She is the author of Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850 (2011); Men on Trial: Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity In Ireland, 1800-1845 (2019), and numerous edited collections, articles, and book chapters in the area of the history of emotion, family life and gender. With Andrew Lynch and Giovanni Tarantino, she edits Emotions: History, Culture, Society.

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ISBN 13	9780198868132
ISBN 10	0198868138
Title	Caritas
Author	Katie Barclay
Series	Emotions In History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2021-01-28
Number of pages	240
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