"A tender age" cultural anxieties over the child in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries - MacLehose, William F.; American Council of Learned Societies (New York : Columbia University Press, 2007)
1. Nurturing danger : twelfth- and thirteenth-century medicine and t he problem(s) of the child -- 2. Suffer little children: baptism, heres y, and the debates over the nature of the child -- 3. Simplicity and fa ith : childhood, maternity, and the creation of a Jewish threat -- 4. " The path of the foolish children" : delusion, disillusionment, and the challenge of the children's crusade of 1212.
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 200 0.
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Keywords: Children -- Europe -- History; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.; Europe -- History -- 476-1492.