Children in Late Ancient Christianity

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-16-150235-4
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, 497 Seiten, Format (B × H): 231 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 778 g

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

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horn, Cornelia

Phenix, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Biblische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Politik

Über Autor(innen)

Horn, Cornelia
is professor of Greek and Oriental Patristics, Saint Louis University, USA.

Phenix, Robert
Born 1973; 2005 PhD; 2008 Habilitation in the Languages and Cultures of the Christian Orient at the University of Tübingen; currently an independent scholar.

Cornelia Horn
is professor of Greek and Oriental Patristics, Saint Louis University, USA.

Robert Phenix
Born 1973; 2005 PhD; 2008 Habilitation in the Languages and Cultures of the Christian Orient at the University of Tübingen; currently an independent scholar.