Drawing on evidence from a wide collection of surviving family papers,
Beloved Children is a comprehensive study examining topics such as
family intimacy, paternal and maternal attitudes, providing the reader
with a valuable insight into a child's life in Hungary during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
With the aid of case studies, the volume illustrates every aspect of
Hungarian childhood in the early modern age from a variety of
perspectives birth, care, education, marriage, orphanhood and death. The
book also includes a unique portrayal of family life in the Hungarian
aristocracy.