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OverviewInquiring 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Reidar Aasgaard (University of Oslo, Norway) , Cornelia Horn , Oana Maria CojocaruPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9781472468925ISBN 10: 1472468929 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 27 July 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Reidar Aasgaard and Cornelia Horn, with Oana Maria Cojocaru Roots of character and flowers of virtues: a philosophy of childhood in Plato’s Republic Malin Grahn-Wilder Aristotle on children and childhood Hallvard J. Fossheim Roman conceptions of childhood: the modes of family commemoration and academic prescription W. Martin Bloomer Greco-Roman pediatrics Patricia Baker Ancient Jewish traditions: Moses’ infancy and the remaking of biblical Miriam in Antiquity Hagith Sivan Slave children in the first-century Jesus movement Marianne Bjelland Kartzow Aspects of childhood in second- and third-century Christianity: the case of Clement of Alexandria Henny Fiskå Hägg Children and childhood in Neoplatonism Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson Childhood in 400 CE: Jerome, John Chrysostom, and Augustine on children and their formation Reidar Aasgaard Children in Oriental Christian and Greek hagiography from the early Byzantine world (ca. 400–800 CE) Cornelia Horn ""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 Conceptions of children and youth in Carolingian capitularies Valerie L. Garver Children and youth in monastic life: Western Europe 400–1250 Brian Patrick McGuire Childhood in middle and late Byzantium: ninth to fifteenth centuries Alice-Mary Talbot New Perspectives on parent-child relations in early Europe: Jewish legal views from the High Middle Ages Israel Z. Gilat Voci puerili: children in Dante’s Divine Comedy Unn Falkeid Viking childhood Ármann Jakobsson 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 Perceptions of children in medieval England Nicholas OrmeReviewsAuthor InformationReidar 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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