Childhood In History: Perceptions Of Children In The Ancient And Medieval Worlds

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Front cover -- Biographical notes -- Acknowledgements -- 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 ('aqiqa) 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 -- Bibliography -- Index 9781472468925 1472468929 0 Children NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r1RsjwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Reidar Aasgaard, Cornelia B. Horn, Oana Maria Cojocaru
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jul 27, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 384 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472468929
• • ISBN-13: 9781472468925