Childhood in History (eBook, PDF)

Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Redaktion: Aasgaard, Reidar; Horn, Cornelia

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Produktbeschreibung

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 pre-modern history of European civilization. This volume brings together rich insights from fields as diverse as philosophy, religion, pedagogy, legal studies, medicine, literature, and history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317168942
• Artikelnr.: 48837588

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 ('aq¿qa) 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-child relations in early Europe: Jewish
legal views from the High Middle Ages
Israel Z. Gilat
17. Voci puerili: children in Dante's Divine Comedy
Unn Falkeid
18. Viking childhood
Ármann Jakobsson
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
20. Perceptions of children in medieval England
Nicholas Orme