Children in late ancient Christianity
By: edited by Cornelia B. Horn and Robert R. Phenix
Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 58 = -- Studies and texts in antiquity and Christianity -- 58,; Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 58.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9783161502354
Subjects: Kind; Kinderen; Christentum; Kindheitsevangelien; Christianity; Vroege christendom; Soziale Situation; Children; Frühchristentum
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Uncovering children's culture in late antiquity : the testimony of the Infancy gospel of Thomas  -- Reidar Aasgaard; title: "Social viewing" of children in the childhood stories of Jesus  -- Tony Burke; title: Baptized infants and pagan rituals : Cyprian versus Augustine  -- Inta Ivanovska; title: Mother-child bonding in the Greek and Latin Fathers of the Church  -- Carole Monica C. Burnett; title: Children in fourth-century Greek epistolography : Cappadocian perspectives from the pens of Gregory Nazianzen and Basil of Caesarea  -- Cornelia B. Horn; title: Sick children and healing saints : medical treatment of the child in Christian antiquity  -- Susan R. Holman; title: Approaches to the study of sick children and their healing : Christian apocryphal acts, gospels, and cognate literatures  -- Cornelia B. Horn; title: The deformed child in ancient Christianity  -- Nicole Kelley; title: "Do not sexually abuse children" : the language of early Christian sexual ethics  -- John W. Martens; title: Choosing asceticism : children and parents, vows and conflicts  -- Ville Vuolanto; title: Raising martyrs and ascetics : a diachronic comparison of educational role-models for early Christian children  -- Cornelia B. Horn; title: Children and Egyptian monasticism  -- Carrie Schroeder; title: Papyrological perspectives on orphans in the world of late ancient Christianity  -- Chrysi Kotsifou; title: The contribution of social science research to the study of children and childhood in pre-modern Ethiopia -- Robert Phenix.