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Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds book cover

1st Edition

Childhood in History Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Edited By Reidar Aasgaard, Cornelia Horn Copyright 2018
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

400 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Inquiring into childhood is one of the most appropriate ways to address the perennial and essential question of what it is that makes human beings – each of us – human. In Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds , Aasgaard, Horn, and Cojocaru bring together the groundbreaking work of nineteen leading scholars in order to advance interdisciplinary... Read more


  1. Introduction


    2. Reidar Aasgaard and Cornelia Horn, with Oana Maria Cojocaru





  2. Roots of character and flowers of virtues: a philosophy of childhood in Plato’s Republic




    3. Malin Grahn-Wilder





  3. Aristotle on children and childhood




    4. Hallvard J. Fossheim





  4. Roman conceptions of childhood: the modes of family commemoration and academic prescription




    5. W. Martin Bloomer





  5. Greco-Roman pediatrics




    6. Patricia Baker





  6. Ancient Jewish traditions: Moses’ infancy and the remaking of biblical Miriam in Antiquity




    7. Hagith Sivan





  7. Slave children in the first-century Jesus movement




    8. Marianne Bjelland Kartzow





  8. Aspects of childhood in second- and third-century Christianity: the case of Clement of Alexandria




    9. Henny Fiskå Hägg





  9. Children and childhood in Neoplatonism




    10. Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson





  10. Childhood in 400 CE: Jerome, John Chrysostom, and Augustine on children and their formation




    11. Reidar Aasgaard





  11. Children in Oriental Christian and Greek hagiography from the early Byzantine world (ca. 400–800 CE)




    12. Cornelia Horn





  12. "Pour out the blood and remove the evil from him": The creation of a ritual of birth (‘aqīqa) in Islam in the eighth century




    13. Mohammed Hocine Benkheira





  13. Conceptions of children and youth in Carolingian capitularies




    14. Valerie L. Garver





  14. Children and youth in monastic life: Western Europe 400–1250




    15. Brian Patrick McGuire





  15. Childhood in middle and late Byzantium: ninth to fifteenth centuries




    16. Alice-Mary Talbot





  16. New Perspectives on parent-

Biography

Reidar Aasgaard is professor of intellectual history at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published numerous books and articles on the New Testament, early Christianity, Christian Apocrypha, Augustine, and children and the family in antiquity. He is director of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe".



Cornelia Horn is full professor of Christian Oriental studies at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle, Germany. She has published extensively in the fields of religion, literature, history, and society in the Mediterranean world, focusing in particular on women, children, extracanonical traditions, interreligious relations, and Syriac and Arabic Christianity.



Oana Maria Cojocaru earned her PhD degree in intellectual history (Byzantine studies) at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her doctoral thesis, which is part of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe", deals with representations of children and childhood in medieval Byzantine hagiography.

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