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2009 · réf. 512889 — Mohr Siebeck 2009. Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD. 497pp. Ex-library wrappers covered in stiff plastic laminant; very clean and sharp copy with sound binding and no evidence of use. Shipped professionally in a box. ' Social cultural theological and economic presentations of children offer important clues to understanding the development of Christianity and society in Late Antiquity. This volume brings together studies of a diverse collection of sources - patristic texts apocrypha medicinal treatises hagiography pseudepigrapha papyri and more - illuminating how children mediated the relationship between Christian thought and Late Antique society. The contributors address the existence of children's culture medicine and healing of children disability and deformed children the economic condition of orphans theological appropriations of children the presentations of family relationships in Christian thought monasticism and family obligations early Christian response to pedophilia and the formation of Christian ethical identity and the role of children in apocryphal texts. With contributions by: Reidar Aasgaard Tony Burke Carole Monica C. Burnett Susan R. Holman Cornelia B. Horn; Inta Ivanovska Nicole Kelley Chrysi Kotsifou John W. Martens Robert R. Phenix Carrie Schroeder Ville Vuolanto' Publisher's blurb. Mohr Siebeck paperback