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.…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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 ('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
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
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