Childhood in History Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds 1st Edition by Reidar Aasgaard, Cornelia Horn 9781472468925 1472468929

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ISBN 10: 1472468929

ISBN 13: 9781472468925

Author: Reidar Aasgaard, Cornelia Horn

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.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction

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

3 Aristotle on children and childhood

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

5 Greco-Roman paediatrics

6 Ancient Jewish traditions: Moses’s infancy and the remaking of biblical Miriam in antiquity

7 Slave children in the first-century Jesus movement

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

9 Children and childhood in Neoplatonism

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

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

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 Conceptions of children and youth in Carolingian capitularies

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

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

16 New perspectives on parent-child relationships in early Europe: Jewish legal views from the High Middle Ages

17 Voci puerili: children in Dante’s Divine Comedy

18 Viking childhood

19 Reactions to the death of infants and children in premodern Muslim societies: children in Mar‘i Ibn Yusuf’s plague and consolation treatises

20 Perceptions of children in medieval England

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