The church and childhood : papers read at the 1993 Summer Meeting and the 1994 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society - Wood, Diana (Oxford : Blackwell for the Society, 1994)
The fathers and the children / Gillian Clark -- The education of girls in fourth-century Rome / the late Joan M. Petersen -- Childhood in eastern patristic thought: some problems of theology and theological anthropology / Graham Gould -- Children and confession in the early Middle Ages / Rob Meens -- Suffering and innocence in Latin sermons for the Feast of the Holy Innocents, c.400-800 / Paul A. Hayward -- Parents, children, and the Church in the earlier Middle Ages (Presidential address) / Janet L. Nelson -- The fate of babies dying before baptism in Byzantium / Jane Baun -- Oblation or obligation? A canonical ambiguity / John Doran -- The sacra infantia in medieval hagiography / István P. Bejczy -- Received in his name: Rome's busy baby box / Brenda M. Bolton -- The Almonry School of Norwich Cathedral Priory in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Joan Greatrex -- Friends of the family: some miracles for children by Italian friars / Diana M. Webb -- The child in the picture: a medieval perspective / Andrew Martindale -- Natalis Innocentrum: the Holy Innocents in liturgy and drama / Martin R. Dudley -- The boy bishop's feast: a case-study in Church attitudes towards children in the high and late Middle Ages / Shulamith Shahar -- Children, the liturgy, and the Reformation: the evidence of the Lichfield cathedral choristers / T.N. Cooper -- Counter-reformatory theories of upbringing in Italy / Oliver Logan -- Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings: prophecy, Puritanism, and childhood in Elizabethan Suffolk / Alexandra Walsham -- From fire and water: the responsibilities of Godparents in early modern England / William Coster -- Such perfecting of praise out of the mouth of a babe: Sarah Wight as child prophet / Susan Hardman Moore -- Prescription and practice: Protestantism and the upbringing of children, 1560-1700 / Anthony Fletcher -- The Bible for children: the emergence and development of the genre, 1550-1990 / Ruth B. Bottigheimer -- The eye of his master: children and charity schools / W.M. Jacob -- Representations of children in the sermons of Philip Doddridge / Francoise Decconinck-Brossard -- Missionary regiments for Immanuel's service: juvenile missionary organization in English Sunday schools, 1841-1865 / Brian Stanley -- Sunday-school book prizes for children: rewards and socialization / Dorothy Entwistle -- Fact and fiction: children and the crusades / Elizabeth Siberry -- The child as maker of the ultramontane / Bernard Aspinwall -- Choirboys and choirgirls in the Victorian Church of England / Walter Hillsman -- The Purley way for children / Clyde Binfield -- The foundress and the foundlings: the 'moral panic' of 1893 in the Orphanage of Mercy / Stuart Mews.
Keywords: Church work with children -- History -- Congresses.Christian education of children -- History -- Congresses.Children -- Religious life -- History -- Congresses