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1 online resource |
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Gutenberg-e |
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Gutenberg (e)
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Nurturing danger : twelfth- and thirteenth-century medicine and the problem(s) of the child -- Suffer little children : baptism, heresy, and the debates over the nature of the child -- Simplicity and faith : childhood, maternity, and the creation of a Jewish threat -- "The path of the foolish children" : delusion, disillusionment, and the challenge of the Children's Crusade of 1212 |
| Summary |
"Beginning in the early thirteenth century, the burial of a child became an event of dramatic consequence. Child death took on a symbolic power, with great concern expressed over the fate of the body. William F. MacLehose follows the evolution of this social anxiety during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, an anxiety focused on images of children's vulnerability and susceptibility to external threats." "Employing a wide range of sources, including historical chronicles, medical writings, Marian legends, hagiography, and popular theological texts, MacLehose advances four important discussions of childhood that directly link fragility with other sources of cultural anxiety: medical writers who began to articulate an increasingly paradoxical view of women's bodily fluids - milk and menstrual blood - as simultaneously essential and potentially fatal to the survival of the fetus and the newborn: doctrinal debates on the fate of children who died before baptism; accusations against Jews, who were charged with the ritual murder of Christian children; and the so-called Children's Crusade of 1212, which was justified on the basis that corruption was an inevitable part of a child's growth."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 2000 |
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Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
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Screen of 2007-11-12; title from caption |
| Subject |
Children -- Europe -- History.
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Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Child Welfare -- history.
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History, Medieval.
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Social Conditions -- history.
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Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
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Europe. |
| Genre/Form |
Technical reports.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0231503709 (E-Book) |
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9780231503709 (E-Book) |
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(cloth ; alk. paper) |
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(cloth ; alk. paper) |
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