Children in late ancient Christianity / edited by Cornelia B. Horn and Robert R. Phenix.
Contributor(s): Horn, Cornelia B
| Phenix, Robert R
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TextSeries: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum: Publisher: Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xxvi, 497 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783161502354 (pbk. : alk. paper); 3161502353 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Children -- Religious aspects -- ChristianityBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 East | BT705 .C46 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903214902 |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Cornelia B. Horn and Robert R. Phenix -- 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.