Children in late ancient Christianity / [manuscript] /
edited by Cornelia B. Horn and Robert R. Phenix.
- T bingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, c2009.
- xxvi, 497 p. ; 24 cm.
- Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; Studies and texts in antiquity and Christianity ; 58 = 58, 1436-3003 .
- Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 58. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Uncovering children's culture in late antiquity : the testimony of the Infancy gospel of Thomas / "Social viewing" of children in the childhood stories of Jesus / Baptized infants and pagan rituals : Cyprian versus Augustine / Mother-child bonding in the Greek and Latin Fathers of the Church / Children in fourth-century Greek epistolography : Cappadocian perspectives from the pens of Gregory Nazianzen and Basil of Caesarea / Sick children and healing saints : medical treatment of the child in Christian antiquity / Approaches to the study of sick children and their healing : Christian apocryphal acts, gospels, and cognate literatures / The deformed child in ancient Christianity / "Do not sexually abuse children" : the language of early Christian sexual ethics / Choosing asceticism : children and parents, vows and conflicts / Raising martyrs and ascetics : a diachronic comparison of educational role-models for early Christian children / Children and Egyptian monasticism / Papyrological perspectives on orphans in the world of late ancient Christianity / The contribution of social science research to the study of children and childhood in pre-modern Ethiopia / Reidar Aasgaard -- Tony Burke -- Inta Ivanovska -- Carole Monica C. Burnett -- Cornelia B. Horn -- Susan R. Holman -- Cornelia B. Horn -- Nicole Kelley -- John W. Martens -- Ville Vuolanto -- Cornelia B. Horn -- Carrie Schroeder -- Chrysi Kotsifou -- Robert Phenix.