The Church and Childhood Book

	Preface
	List of Contributors
	List of Abbreviations
	Introduction
	The Fathers and the Children	1
	The Education of Girls in Fourth-century Rome	29
	Childhood in Eastern Patristic Thought: Some Problems of Theology and Theological Anthropology	39
	Children and Confession in the Early Middle Ages	53
	Suffering and Innocence in Latin Sermons for the Feast of the Holy Innocents, c.400-800	67
	Parents, Children, and the Church in the Earlier Middle Ages (Presidential Address)	81
	The Fate of Babies Dying before Baptism in Byzantium	115
	Oblation or Obligation? A Canonical Ambiguity	127
	The sacra infantia in Medieval Hagiography	143
	'Received in his Name': Rome's Busy Baby Box	153
	The Almonry School of Norwich Cathedral Priory in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries	169
	Friends of the Family: Some Miracles for Children by Italian Friars	183
	The Child in the Picture: a Medieval Perspective	197
	Natalis Innocentum: the Holy Innocents in Liturgy and Drama	233
	The Boy Bishop's Feast: a Case-study in Church Attitudes towards Children in the High and Late Middle Ages	243
	Children, the Liturgy, and the Reformation: the Evidence of the Lichfield Cathedral Choristers	261
	Counter-Reformatory Theories of Upbringing in Italy	275
	'Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings': Prophecy, Puritanism, and Childhood in Elizabethan Suffolk	285
	'From Fire and Water': the Responsibilities of Godparents in Early Modern England	301
	'Such perfecting of praise out of the mouth of a babe': Sarah Wight as Child Prophet	313
	Prescription and Practice: Protestantism and the Upbringing of Children, 1560-1700	325
	The Bible for Children: the Emergence and Development of the Genre, 1550-1990	347
	The Eye of his Master: Children and Charity Schools	363
	Representations of Children in the Sermons of Philip Doddridge	379
	'Missionary Regiments for Immanuel's Service': Juvenile Missionary Organization in English Sunday Schools, 1841-1865	391
	Sunday-school Book Prizes for Children: Rewards and Socialization	405
	Fact and Fiction: Children and the Crusades	417
	The Child as Marker of the Ultramontane	427
	Choirboys and Choirgirls in the Victorian Church of England	447
	The Purley Way for Children	461
	The Foundress and the Foundlings: the 'Moral Panic' of 1893 in the Orphanage of Mercy	477
	Appendix Introit: 'Out of the Mouths...'	501
	Index	505