"A tender age" : cultural anxieties over the child in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / by William F. MacLehose.
- MacLehose, William F
- Date:
- 2007, ©2006
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Also known as
Cultural anxieties over the child in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Publication/Creation
New York : Columbia University Press, 2007, ©2006.
Edition
ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic edition.
Notes
Caption title; description based on screen of 2007-11-12.
Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 2000.
Contents
1. Nurturing danger : twelfth- and thirteenth-century medicine and the problem(s) of the child -- 2. Suffer little children: baptism, heresy, and the debates over the nature of the child -- 3. Simplicity and faith : childhood, maternity, and the creation of a Jewish threat -- 4. "The path of the foolish children" : delusion, disillusionment, and the challenge of the children's crusade of 1212.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references.
Funding information
This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.