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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Introduction / REIDAR AASGAARD -- chapter 2 Roots of character and f lowers of virtues: a philosophy of childhood in Plato's Republic / MALIN GRAHN-WILDER -- chapter 3 Aristotle on children and childhood / HALLVARD J. FOSSHEIM -- chapter 4 Roman conceptions of childhood: the modes of family commemoration and academic prescription / W. MARTIN BLOOMER -- chapter 5 Greco-Roman paediatrics / PATRICIA BAK ER -- chapter 6 Ancient Jewish traditions: Moses's infancy and the remaking of biblical Miriam in antiquity / HAGITH SIVAN -- chapter 7 Slave children in the first-century Jesus movement / MARIANNE BJELLAND K ARTZOW -- chapter 8 Aspects of childhood in second- and third-century Christianity: the case of Clement of Alexandria / HENNY F ISK A HAGG -- chapter 9 Children and childhood in Neoplatonism / EYJOLFUR KJALAR EMILSSON -- chapter 10 Childhood in 400 CE : Jerome, John Chrysostom, and Augustine on children and their formation / REIDAR AASGAARD -- chapter 11 Children in Oriental Christian and Greek hagiography from the early Byzantine world (circa 400-800 CE ) / CORNELIA HORN -- chapter 12 "Pour out the blood and remove the evil from him": the creation of a ritual of birth ( 'aqiqa ) in Islam in the eighth century / MOHAMMED HOCINE BENK HEIRA -- chapter 13 Conceptions of children and youth in Carolingian capitularies / VALERIE L. GARVER -- chapter 14 Children and youth in monastic life: Western Europe 400-1250 CE / BRIAN PATRICK McGUIRE -- chapter 15 Childhood in middle and late Byzantium: ninth to fifteenth centuries / ALICE-MARY TALBOT -- chapter 16 New perspectives on parent-child relationships in early Europe: Jewish legal views from the High Middle Ages / ISRAEL ZV I GILAT -- chapter 17 Voci puerili : children in Dante's Divine Comedy / UNN FALK EID -- chapter 18 Viking childhood / ARMANN JAKOBSSON -- chapter 19 Reactions to the death of infants and children in premodern Muslim societies: children in Mar? i Ibn Yusuf's plague and consolation treatises / AVNER GILADI -- chapter 20 Perceptions of children in medieval England / NICHOLAS ORME |
| Summary |
"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 historical research into ideas about children and childhood in the premodern history of European civilization. The volume gathers rich insights from fields as varied as pedagogy and medicine, and literature and history. Drawing on a range of sources in genres that extend from philosophical, theological, and educational treatises to law, art, and poetry, from hagiography and autobiography to school lessons and sagas, these studies aim to bring together these diverse fields and source materials, and to allow the development of new conversations. This book will have fulfilled its unifying and explicit goal if it provides an impetus to further research in social and intellectual history, and if it prompts both researchers and the interested wider public to ask new questions about the experiences of children, and to listen to their voices."--Provided by publisher |
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Children -- History -- To 1500
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Children
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Horn, Cornelia
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| ISBN |
9781315571133 |
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1315571137 |
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