Childhood in History

Reidar Aasgaard is professor of intellectual history at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published numerous books and articles on the New Testament, early Christianity, Christian Apocrypha, Augustine, and children and the family in antiquity. He is director of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe".Cornelia Horn is full professor of Christian Oriental studies at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle, Germany. She has published extensively in the fields of religion, literature, history, and society in the Mediterranean world, focusing in particular on women, children, extracanonical traditions, interreligious relations, and Syriac and Arabic Christianity.Oana Maria Cojocaru earned her PhD degree in intellectual history (Byzantine studies) at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her doctoral thesis, which is part of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe", deals with representations of children and childhood in medieval Byzantine hagiography.

• IntroductionReidar Aasgaard and Cornelia Horn, with Oana Maria Cojocaru Roots of character and flowers of virtues: a philosophy of childhood in Plato’s Republic Malin Grahn-Wilder Aristotle on children and childhoodHallvard J. Fossheim Roman conceptions of childhood: the modes of family commemoration and academic prescriptionW. Martin Bloomer Greco-Roman pediatricsPatricia Baker Ancient Jewish traditions: Moses’ infancy and the remaking of biblical Miriam in AntiquityHagith Sivan Slave children in the first-century Jesus movementMarianne Bjelland Kartzow Aspects of childhood in second- and third-century Christianity: the case of Clement of AlexandriaHenny Fiskå Hägg Children and childhood in NeoplatonismEyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson Childhood in 400 CE: Jerome, John Chrysostom, and Augustine on children and their formationReidar Aasgaard Children in Oriental Christian and Greek hagiography from the early Byzantine world (ca. 400–800 CE)Cornelia Horn "Pour out the blood and remove the evil from him": The creation of a ritual of birth (‘aqīqa) in Islam in the eighth centuryMohammed Hocine Benkheira Conceptions of children and youth in Carolingian capitulariesValerie L. Garver Children and youth in monastic life: Western Europe 400–1250Brian Patrick McGuire Childhood in middle and late Byzantium: ninth to fifteenth centuriesAlice-Mary Talbot New Perspectives on parent-child relations in early Europe: Jewish legal views from the High Middle AgesIsrael Z. Gilat Voci puerili: children in Dante’s Divine Comedy Unn Falkeid Viking childhoodÁrmann Jakobsson Reactions to the death of infants and children in premodern Muslim societies: children in Mar‘i Ibn Yusuf’s plague and consolation treatisesAvner Giladi Perceptions of children in medieval EnglandNicholas Orme