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"A tender age": cultural anxieties over the child in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

William F. MacLehose

Year: 2007, c2006.

Publisher: Columbia University Press.

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table of contents

Title Page

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Nurturing Danger: Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Medicine and the Problem(s) of the Child

[Intro]

Textual Background

Embryology and the Question of Nourishment

The Trouble with Midwives

Neonatal Care: The Nurse's Milk

Conclusions

Chapter 2: Suffer Little Children: Baptism, Heresy, and the Debates over the Nature of the Child

[Intro]

Contexts and Sources: The Rise of Heresies and Catholic Responses

Negative Views of Childhood: Sin and its Consequences

[Intro]

Mind and Body

The Sinful Child

Positive Images of Childhood: The Infant as Metaphor

[Intro]

Exceptions Prove the Rule: The Worthiness of Children

"Sinite parvulos": A Divine Invitation

God's Mercy: The Divine Plan of Salvation and Justice for the Child

[Intro]

Fides aliena

Historicizing God's Plan for Children

The Mercy of the Good Father

Chapter 3: Simplicity and Faith: Childhood, Maternity, and the Creation of a Jewish Threat

[Intro]

Historical and Textual Backgrounds

Powerlessness and The Child

Power Misused: Jews and Children

[Intro]

Children, Jews, Money, and Deceit

Ritual Violence

The Jewish Patriarch and the False Family

Power Redefined: Maternal Mourning and the Child

[Intro]

The Language of Loss

Ritualized Mourning: Rachel Crying

Gender, Parenting, and Justice

Power, Piety, and Intimacy: Mother, Son, and Christian Family

[Intro]

The Virgin and the Child

Holy Family and Earthly Child

The Child, Christian Community, and Revenge

Further Diffusions

Conclusions

Chapter 4: "The Path of the Foolish Children": Delusion, Disillusionment, and the Challenge of the Children's Crusade of 1212

[Intro]

Childish Devotion

Gullibility and Folly

The Innocents Abroad

Conclusions

Appendix to Chapter 2: Contexts and Sources: The Rise of Heresies and Catholic Responses

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1: Nurturing Danger: Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Medicine and the Problem(s) of the Child

Chapter 2: Suffer Little Children: Baptism, Heresy, and the Debates over the Nature of the Child

Chapter 3: Simplicity and Faith: Childhood, Maternity, and the Creation of a Jewish Threat

Chapter 4: "The Path of the Foolish Children": Delusion, Disillusionment, and the Challenge of the Children's Crusade of 1212

Conclusions

Appendix to Chapter 2

Bibliography

Abbreviations

[Note]

History of Childhood

Medieval Pediatrics (Chapter 1)

Infant Baptism and Heresy (Chapter 2)

Ritual Murder and Marian Miracles (Chapter 3)

The Children's Crusade (Chapter 4)

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"A tender age" : cultural anxieties over the child in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / by William F. MacLehose.

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MacLehose, William F

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"A tender age" : cultural anxieties over the child in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / by William F. MacLehose.
MacLehose, William F
New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, c2006.

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Subject Headings:

• Children -- Europe -- History
• Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
• Europe -- History -- 476-1492

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• 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.
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