1. Introduction Reidar Aasgaard and Marcia J. BungePart 1. Spheres of life: home, church, and society2. The child in Norwegian and Scandinavian folk beliefs Ørnulf Hodne3. The household code: Protestant upbringing in Denmark-Norway from the Reformation to the Enlightenment Ingrid Markussen4. "Let the little children come to me": representations of children in the confessional culture of Lutheran Norway (seventeenth-nineteenth centuries) Kristin B. Aavitsland5. Education of children in rural Finland: the roles of homes, churches, and manor houses Anu Lahtinen6. Children’s rights and duties: snapshots into the history of education and child protection in Denmark (ca. 1700–1900) Anette Faye JacobsenPart 2. Children’s development: formation, education, and work7. "A plain and cheerful, active life on earth": children, education, and faith in the works of N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783–1872, Denmark) Marcia J. Bunge8. "Educating poor, rich, and dangerous children": the birth of a segregated school system in nineteenth-century Sweden Bengt Sandin9. The child in the early nineteenth century Norwegian school system Thor Inge Rørvik10. Negotiating family, education, and labour: working-class children in Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Pirjo Markkola11. Sheep, fish, and school: conflicting arenas of childhood in the lives of Icelandic children, 1900–1970 Ólöf Garðarsdóttir12. Educational policy and boarding schools for indigenous Sami students in Norway from 1700 to the present day Hansen, Ketil Lenert13. Children and their stories of World War II: a study of essays by Norwegian school children from 1946 Ellen Schrumpf14. "In song we meet on common ground": conceptions of children in songbooks for Norwegian schools (1914–1964) Eiliv OlsenPart 3. Literature: children’s books, fairy tales, and novels15. Children, dying, and death: views from an eighteenth-century periodical for children Merethe Roos 16. Incandescent objects and pictures of misery: Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales for children Maria Tatar17. Inventing subjectivity and the rights of the child in nineteenth-century Nordic children’s literature Olle Widhe18. Competent children: childhoods in Nordic children’s literature from 1850 to 1960 Åse Marie Ommundsen19. The small people in the big picture: children in Swedish working-class novels of the 1930s Karin Nykvist

"Nordic Childhoods 1700–1960: From Folk Beliefs to Pippi Longstocking is a rich and varied volume that seeks to unite insights from childhood studies and Nordic studies and make these accessible to an English-speaking audience....The book is an interesting, well-written, and sound contribution to the history of childhood."-Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Aarhus University