Children in Late Ancient Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children in Late Ancient Christianity write by Cornelia B. Horn. This book was released on 2009. Children in Late Ancient Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together studies of a diverse collection of sources ù patristic texts, apocrypha, medicinal treatises, hagiography, pseudepigrapha, papyri, and more ù illuminating how children mediated the relationship between Christian thought and society in late antiquity.
Late Ancient Christianity
Late Ancient Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Late Ancient Christianity write by Virginia Burrus. This book was released on 2010-03-01. Late Ancient Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The particular excitement of this volume lies in its focus on the everyday realities of Christians' lives in the era of Christian ascendancy and Roman decline. Popular fiction, childrearing and toys, rituals of inclusion, the beginning of veneration of saints and shunning of heretics, the ascetic impulse, food practices—all these and more lend color and texture to the story of a "people's" Christianity in this formative stage.
Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World
Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World write by Christian Laes. This book was released on 2016-11-10. Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World explores what it meant to be a child in the Roman world - what were children’s concerns, interests and beliefs - and whether we can find traces of children’s own cultures. By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children lived, their experience of everyday life, and what the limits were for their agency. The volume brings together scholars of archaeology and material culture, classicists, ancient historians, theologians, and scholars of early Christianity and Judaism, all of whom have long been involved in the study of the social and cultural history of children. The topics discussed include children's living environments; clothing; childhood care; social relations; leisure and play; health and disability; upbringing and schooling; and children's experiences of death. While the main focus of the volume is on Late Antiquity its coverage begins with the early Roman Empire, and extends to the early ninth century CE. The result is the first book-length scrutiny of the agency and experience of pre-modern children.
Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity
Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity write by Ville Vuolanto. This book was released on 2016-03-03. Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Late Antiquity the emergence of Christian asceticism challenged the traditional Greco-Roman views and practices of family life. The resulting discussions on the right way to live a good Christian life provide us with a variety of information on both ideological statements and living experiences of late Roman childhood. This is the first book to scrutinise the interplay between family, children and asceticism in the rise of Christianity. Drawing on texts of Christian authors of the late fourth and early fifth centuries the volume approaches the study of family dynamics and childhood from both ideological and social historical perspectives. It examines the place of children in the family in Christian ideology and explores how families in the late Roman world adapted these ideals in practice. Offering fresh viewpoints to current scholarship Ville Vuolanto demonstrates that there were many continuities in Roman ways of thinking about children and, despite the rise of Christianity, the old traditions remained deeply embedded in the culture. Moreover, the discussions about family and children are shown to have been intimately linked to worries about the continuity of family lineage and of the self, and to the changing understanding of what constituted a meaningful life.
Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son
Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son write by Maria E. Doerfler. This book was released on 2020-01-02. Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Late antiquity was a perilous time for children, who were often the first victims of economic crisis, war, and disease. They had a one in three chance of dying before their first birthday, with as many as half dying before age ten. Christian writers accordingly sought to speak to the experience of bereavement and to provide cultural scripts for parents who had lost a child. These late ancient writers turned to characters like Eve and Sarah, Job and Jephthah as models for grieving and for confronting or submitting to the divine. Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah’s Son traces the stories these writers crafted and the ways in which they shaped the lived experience of familial bereavement in ancient Christianity. A compelling social history that conveys the emotional lives of people in the late ancient world, Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah's Son is a powerful portrait of mourning that extends beyond antiquity to the present day.
