"A tender age"
Subtitle: cultural anxieties over the child in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
By: by William F. MacLehose
Contributors: American Historical Association; Columbia University. Press
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Children; History; Social history
Other titles: Cultural anxieties over the child in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; Gutenberg-e.
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 2000.

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Table of contents: title: 1. Nurturing danger : twelfth- and thirteenth-century medicine and the problem(s) of the child; title: 2. Suffer little children: baptism, heresy, and the debates over the nature of the child; title: 3. Simplicity and faith : childhood, maternity, and the creation of a Jewish threat; title: 4. "The path of the foolish children" : delusion, disillusionment, and the challenge of the children's crusade of 1212.