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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.
The Chronicle attributed to Zachariah of Mytilene is one of the
most important sources for the history of the church from the
Council of Chalcedon in 451 to the early years of the reign of
Justinian (527-565). The author who compiled the work in Syriac in
A.D. 568/9 drew extensively on the Ecclesiastical History of
Zachariah the Rhetor, who later became bishop of Mytilene and ended
up giving his name to the whole work. But Zachariah's
Ecclesiastical History, which forms books iii to vi of
Pseudo-Zachariah's work and covers the period from 451 to 491, is
just one of a range of sources cited by this later compiler. For
the period that follows, he turned to other well-informed sources,
which cover both church and secular affairs. His reporting of the
siege of Amida in 502-3 clearly derives from an eye-witness
account, while for the reign of the Emperor Justinian he offers not
only numerous documents, but also an independent narrative of the
Persian war, as well as notices on the Nika riot and events in the
West.
This translation (of books iii-xii) is the first into a modern
language since 1899 and is equipped with a detailed commentary and
introduction, along with contributions by two eminent Syriac
scholars, Sebastian Brock and Witold Witakowski.
The Chronicle attributed to Zachariah of Mytilene is one of the
most important sources for the history of the church from the
Council of Chalcedon in 451 to the early years of the reign of
Justinian (527-565). The author who compiled the work in Syriac in
A.D. 568/9 drew extensively on the Ecclesiastical History of
Zachariah the Rhetor, who later became bishop of Mytilene and ended
up giving his name to the whole work. But Zachariah's
Ecclesiastical History, which forms books iii to vi of
Pseudo-Zachariah's work and covers the period from 451 to 491, is
just one of a range of sources cited by this later compiler. For
the period that follows, he turned to other well-informed sources,
which cover both church and secular affairs. His reporting of the
siege of Amida in 502-3 clearly derives from an eye-witness
account, while for the reign of the Emperor Justinian he offers not
only numerous documents, but also an independent narrative of the
Persian war, as well as notices on the Nika riot and events in the
West. This translation (of books iii-xii) is the first into a
modern language since 1899 and is equipped with a detailed
commentary and introduction, along with contributions by two
eminent Syriac scholars, Sebastian Brock and Witold Witakowski.
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.
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