Children in Late Ancient Christianity

edited by Cornelia Horn and Robert Phenix

Book cover: Children in Late Ancient Christianity

Extent: 497 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity

Series volume number: 58

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2009)

ISBN: 9783161502354

Price: $137.00

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Social, cultural, theological, and economic presentations of children offer important clues to understanding the development of Christianity and society in Late Antiquity. This volume brings together studies of a diverse collection of sources – patristic texts, apocrypha, medicinal treatises, hagiography, pseudepigrapha, papyri, and more – illuminating how children mediated the relationship between Christian thought and Late Antique society. The contributors address the existence of children’s culture, medicine and healing of children, disability and deformed children, the economic condition of orphans, theological appropriations of children, the presentations of family relationships in Christian thought, monasticism and family obligations, early Christian response to pedophilia and the formation of Christian ethical identity, and the role of children in apocryphal texts. With contributions by: Reidar Aasgaard, Tony Burke, Carole Monica C. Burnett, Susan R. Holman, Cornelia B. Horn; Inta Ivanovska, Nicole Kelley, Chrysi Kotsifou, John W. Martens, Robert R. Phenix, Carrie Schroeder, Ville Vuolanto

  • Edited by Cornelia Horn
  • Edited by Robert Phenix