Children in late ancient Christianity /
edited by Cornelia B. Horn and Robert R. Phenix.
- XXVI, 497 páginas ; 24 centímetros.
Uncovering children's culture in late antiquity : the testimony of the Infancy gospel of Thomas / Reidar Aasgaard -- "Social viewing" of children in the childhood stories of Jesus / Tony Burke -- Baptized infants and pagan rituals : Cyprian versus Augustine / Inta Ivanovska -- Mother-child bonding in the Greek and Latin Fathers of the Church / Carole Monica C. Burnett -- Children in fourth-century Greek epistolography : Cappadocian perspectives from the pens of Gregory Nazianzen and Basil of Caesarea / Cornelia B. Horn -- Sick children and healing saints : medical treatment of the child in Christian antiquity / Susan R. Holman -- Approaches to the study of sick children and their healing : Christian apocryphal acts, gospels, and cognate literatures / Cornelia B. Horn -- The deformed child in ancient Christianity / Nicole Kelley -- "Do not sexually abuse children" : the language of early Christian sexual ethics / John W. Martens -- Choosing asceticism : children and parents, vows and conflicts / Ville Vuolanto -- Raising martyrs and ascetics : a diachronic comparison of educational role-models for early Christian children / Cornelia B. Horn -- Children and Egyptian monasticism / Carrie Schroeder -- Papyrological perspectives on orphans in the world of late ancient Christianity / Chrysi Kotsifou -- The contribution of social science research to the study of children and childhood in pre-modern Ethiopia / Robert Phenix.