Childhood in History ― Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Throughout history one of the largest groups within any population has been children yet, until recently, children have been marginalised in historical research. Dealing with conceptions of children and childhood in pre-modern Europe this volume includes contributions by expert scholars from a variety of disciplines including history, literature, philosophy and religion. The volume provides an overview of the history of these conceptions within the region, with each scholar presenting and discussing case studies from their respective periods and fields of expertise. Primarily historically oriented the volume is also attentive to the reception history of the material.

Reidar Aasgaard is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published numerous books and articles on the New Testament, Early Christianity, Christian Apocrypha, Augustine, and children and the family in antiquity. He is director of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe".

Cornelia Horn is Full Professor of Christian Oriental Studies at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle, Germany. She has published extensively in the fields of religion, literature, history, and society in the Mediterranean world, focusing in particular on women, children, extra-canonical traditions, interreligious relations, and Syriac and Arabic Christianity.

Oana Maria Cojocaru took her PhD degree in Intellectual history (Byzantine studies) at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her doctoral thesis, which is part of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe", deals with representations of children and childhood in medieval Byzantine hagiography.