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Inquiring into childhood is one of the most appropriate ways to address the perennial and essential question of what it is that makes human beings – each of us – human. In Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Aasgaard, Horn, and Cojocaru bring together the groundbreaking work of nineteen leading scholars in order to advance interdisciplinary historical research into ideas about children and childhood in the premodern history of European civilization.
The volume gathers rich insights from fields as varied as pedagogy and medicine, and literature and history. Drawing on a range of sources in genres that extend from philosophical, theological, and educational treatises to law, art, and poetry, from hagiography and autobiography to school lessons and sagas, these studies aim to bring together these diverse fields and source materials, and to allow the development of new conversations. This book will have fulfilled its unifying and explicit goal if it provides an impetus to further research in social and intellectual history, and if it prompts both researchers and the interested wider public to ask new questions about the experiences of children, and to listen to their voices.
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 MartinLuther-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, extracanonical traditions, interreligious relations, and Syriac and Arabic Christianity.
Oana Maria Cojocaru earned 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.
Biographical notes
AASGAARD, REIDAR (Oslo, Norway) Reidar Aasgaard is professor of intellectual history and history of ideas at the University of Oslo. He has published books, chapters, and articles internationally on the New Testament, early Christianity, Christian Apocrypha, Augustine, and children and family relations in antiquity, and also teaches courses on the history of childhood. He has been director of the research project “Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe” (2013–2017), funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the University of Oslo.
BAKER, PATRICIA (Kent, United Kingdom) Patricia Baker is senior lecturer in ancient history and archaeology and chair of the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies at the University of Kent, with her PhD at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She has published widely on the subject of ancient medicine, including Medical Care for the Roman Army on the Rhine , Danube and British Frontiers from the First through Third Centuries AD (2004, her PhD), and The Archaeology of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World (2013). She has also co-edited books on medical history and archaeology.
BENKHEIRA, MOHAMMED HOCINE (Paris, France) Mohammed Hocine Benkheira has been a professor at the universities of Oran, Algiers, and Rouen. Since 1999, he has occupied the chair on Islamic law at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne. He has published two books, L’amour de la Loi. Essai sur la normativité en islam (1997) and Islam et interdits alimentaires. Juguler l’animalité (2000). With Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen and Jacqueline Sublet, he has published L’animal en Islam (2005), and with the same colleagues and Avner Giladi, La Famille en Islam, d’après les sources arabes (2013).
BLOOMER, W. MARTIN (South Bend, Indiana, United States) W. Martin Bloomer is professor of classics at the University of Notre Dame. His chief areas of research lie in Roman literature, ancient rhetoric, and the history of education. His books include Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility (1993), Latinity and Literary Society at Rome (1997), The Biographical notes Biographical notes xi Contest of Language (2005), The School of Rome (2011), and The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Education (2015).
COJOCARU, OANA MARIA (Oslo, Norway) Oana Maria Cojocaru has a PhD degree in intellectual history/history of ideas (Byzantine studies) at the University of Oslo (2016). Her doctoral thesis Between Ideal and Ordinary: Representations of Children and Childhood in Byzantine Hagiography (Ninth to the Eleventh Centuries) is part of the project “Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe”, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the University of Oslo. Her research interests include gender, family relationships, family emotions, and children’s disabilities.
EMILSSON, EYJÓLFUR KJALAR (Oslo, Norway) Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson is professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo (BA, University of Iceland; PhD, Princeton University). He is the author of Plotinus on Sense Perception (1988), Plotinus on Intellect (2007), and Plotinus (2017), as well as numerous articles, mainly on the Platonic tradition. Emilsson is also translator of Plato’s Republic and other dialogues of Plato into Icelandic and of the Sophist into Norwegian (with Håvard Løkke).
FALKEID, UNN (Oslo, Norway) Unn Falkeid is professor of history of ideas at the University of Oslo. She has published extensively on Dante, Petrarch, and early modern literature. Among her recent publications are The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch (2105), co-edited with Albert Russell Ascoli, and Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry (2015), co-edited with Aileen A. Feng. Her monograph The Avignon Papacy Contested: Power and Politics in FourteenthCentury Literature (2017) explores how the city of Avignon became a context for textual and intellectual exchanges between different cultures of early modern Europe.
FOSSHEIM, HALLVARD J. (Bergen, Norway) Hallvard J. Fosheim is professor in ancient philosophy at the University of Bergen. He has previously held positions as professor II in philosophy at the University of Tromsø, and as director of the Norwegian National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Fossheim has published articles on Plato and Aristotle, as well as on contemporary topics in ethics. Among his main interests is moral psychology.
GARVER, VALERIE L. (DeKalb, Illinois, United States) Valerie L. Garver is associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University where she teaches medieval history and studies. She is the author of Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World (2009). Recent articles include “Textiles as a Means of Female Religious Participation in the Carolingian World” (2013) and “Childbearing and Infancy in the Carolingian World” (2012). xii Biographical notes She is also the co-editor with Owen M. Phelan of Rome and Religion in the Medieval World (2014).
GILADI, AVNER (Haifa, Israel) Avner Giladi is professor at the Department of Middle East History, University of Haifa. His fields of research and teaching are the history of family, childhood, and gender in premodern Islamic contexts. He is the author of Children of Islam: Concepts of Childhood in Medieval Muslim Society (1992), Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Pre-modern Middle East (forthcoming), and La famille en Islam d’après les sources arabes (2013, with others). He is co-editor of Children and Childhood in World Religions (ed. Browning and Bunge, 2009). Giladi has authored various articles and encycopedia entries.
GILAT, ISRAEL ZVI (Netanya, Israel) Israel Zvi Gilat is a rabbi and a lawyer with a PhD in law. He is associate professor at the School of Law, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel, and at the School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. Professor Gilat’s research interests include Jewish law, family and inheritance law, social legislation, and education law. Gilat has published a book on this topic titled Family Law – The Relations between Parents and Children (Heb.; 2000).
GRAHN-WILDER, MALIN (Helsinki, Finland) Malin Grahn-Wilder received her PhD in 2014 from the University of Helsinki and is an independent scholar and lecturer. She is the author of Gender and Sexuality in Stoic Philosophy (2017), and of various articles and encyclopedia entries, with a focus on gender, for example “Psychology of Gender – Ancient Theories” (2013) and “Free Philosophers and Tragic Women: Stoic Perspectives on Suicide” (2014). Her fields of interest are ancient philosophy, philosophy of equality, emotions, and dance. She is a professional dance educator, and has extensive experience of working with children and youth.
HÄGG, HENNY FISKÅ (Kristiansand, Norway) Henny Fiskå Hägg is associate professor at the University of Agder, Norway. Her areas of research include early church history, philosophy and theology of the Church Fathers, especially of the Greek Orthodox tradition, and religious praxis and spirituality of the early church. She is the author of Knowing the Unknowable: Clement of Alexandria and the Origins of Christian Apophaticism (2006) and related articles. She is the editor of Language and Negativity: Apophaticism in Theology and Literature (2000) and Attending to Silence: Educators and Philosophers on the Art of Listening (2012, with Aslaug Kristiansen).
HORN, CORNELIA (Berlin, Germany) Cornelia Horn, PhD, Dr. phil. habil., is full professor of Christian Oriental studies at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle (Saale), Germany. She studies religion, literature, history, and society in the Mediterranean world. Biographical notes xiii Her current work focuses on interreligious relations and social questions. Relevant publications include “Let the Little Children Come to Me”: Childhood and Children in Early Christianity,” with John Martens (2009); and Children in Late Ancient Christianity, co-edited with Robert Phenix (2009). Other work examines, for example, Palestinian and Syriac Christianity in history and intersections between biblical and Qur’anic traditions.
JAKOBSSON, ÁRMANN (Reykjavik, Iceland) Ármann Jakobsson is professor of early Icelandic literature at the University of Iceland. He is the author of Í leit að konungi (1997), Staður í nýjum heimi (2002), Tolkien og Hringurinn (2003), Illa fenginn mjöður (2009), Nine Saga Studies (2013), and Íslendingaþættir (2014). Furthermore, he has edited six anthologies and three text editions, including Morkinskinna in two volumes for the Íslenzk fornrit series, on his own and with other scholars. He has also published three novels and one collection of microprose.
KARTZOW, MARIANNE BJELLAND (Oslo, Norway) Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is professor of New Testament studies at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. She has published two monographs ( Gossip and Gender: Othering of Speech in the Pastoral Epistles, 2009; Destabilizing the Margins: An Intersectional Approach to Early Christian Memory , 2012), and co-edited several volumes, including Bodies, Borders, Believers: Ancient Texts and Present Conversations (2015). She is currently co-editing (with Valérie Nicolet) an anthology titled The Complexity of Conversion: An Intersectional Approach to (Religious) Change in the Ancient World and Beyond .
MCGUIRE, BRIAN PATRICK (Roskilde, Denmark) Brian Patrick McGuire is emeritus professor of history. He holds a D.Phil. in history from Oxford University, United Kingdom (1971). He has had teaching positions at Copenhagen and Roskilde Universities, Denmark. McGuire has authored monographs on Cistercian history and literature. He is also responsible for numerous publications on medieval mentalities and life, in Danish, English, and French. At present he is working on a new biography of Bernard of Clairvaux. ORME, NICHOLAS (Exeter, United Kingdom) Nicholas Orme is emeritus professor of history at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. He has published widely on children, childhood, education, and schools in the Middle Ages, particularly in medieval Britain. Among his books are Fleas, Flies, and Friars: Children’s Poetry from the Middle Ages (2012), Medieval Children (2001), Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England (2006), and Education and Society in Medieval and Renaissance England (1989).
SIVAN, HAGITH (Lawrence, Kansas,United States) Hagith Sivan has written extensively on many aspects of late antiquity and ancient Judaism. Her books include several biographies ( Ausonius of Bordeax , xiv Biographical notes Galla Placidia); regional studies ( Palestine in Late Antiquity); gender studies ( Dinah’s Daughters, Between Woman, Man, and God); edited essays ( Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity); and the theme of childhood ( Jewish Childhood in the Roman World, forthcoming). She is especially interested in combing literary, visual, and material culture in order to contextualize the study of Jewish childhood in the widest possible background.
TALBOT, ALICE-MARY (Washington DC, United States) Alice-Mary Talbot was director of Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks from 1997 to 2009, and is currently editor of the Byzantine Greek series of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. She served from 1984 to 1991 as executive editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Her research has focused on Byzantine monasticism, hagiography, and family life, especially on women and children. In 2006 she co-organized (with Arietta Papaconstantinou) the Dumbarton Oaks symposium Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium (published in 2009), to which she contributed an essay on “The Death and Commemoration of Byzantine Children”.
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