关爱与互助:近代早期英国家庭亲子关系新探

Mutual Love and Mutual Help:New Research on Family Parent-Child Relationship in Early Modern England

对于近代早期的英国家庭关系历来备受学者关注,家庭关系淡漠说一直为众多史家所接受,近年来这一传统观点越来越受到质疑。事实上,近代早期的家庭关系并不像一些学者所称的那般冷漠。父母不仅关心疼爱孩子,而且会在其人生道路上给与其必要的帮助和安慰。子女也会对父母报之以情,在父母年迈或生病的困难时期伸出援手。本文就从家庭亲子关系入手,着重阐释父母与子女之间的这种互助关系。

The scholars have paid morn attention to the family relationship in early modem England for long time, the cool family relationship has been accepted by most historians. Recent years this traditional viewpoint received more and more challenge. In fact, the family relationship in early modem England did not like some scholars have claimed was indifferent. Parents not only cared and loved their children, but also gave the essential help and the comfort on their life path. Children also could reciprocate parents with affection, when parents was old or fell ill, they would stretch out aids. This article will focus on the family parent - child relationship, emphatically explains this kind of cooperative relations between the parents and children.