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

ISBN-13: 9780367880828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 384 str.

Reidar Aasgaard; Cornelia Horn

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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 l

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1. Introduction




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







Malin Grahn-Wilder









3. Aristotle on children and childhood







Hallvard J. Fossheim









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







W. Martin Bloomer









5. Greco-Roman pediatrics







Patricia Baker









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







Hagith Sivan









7. Slave children in the first-century Jesus movement







Marianne Bjelland Kartzow









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







Henny Fiskå Hägg









9. Children and childhood in Neoplatonism







Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson









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







Reidar Aasgaard









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







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







Mohammed Hocine Benkheira









13. Conceptions of children and youth in Carolingian capitularies







Valerie L. Garver









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







Brian Patrick McGuire









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







Alice-Mary Talbot









16. New Perspectives on parent-

O autorze

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.