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Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the
field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each
chapter is written by an international board of authors.
Beginning in the early thirteenth century, the burial of a child
became an event of dramatic consequence. Child death took on a
symbolic power, with great concern expressed over the fate of the
body. William F. MacLehose follows the evolution of this social
anxiety during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, an anxiety
focused on images of children's vulnerability and susceptibility to
external threats. Employing a wide range of sources, including
historical chronicles, medical writings, Marian legends,
hagiography, and popular theological texts, MacLehose advances four
important discussions of childhood that directly link fragility
with other sources of cultural anxiety: medical writers who began
to articulate an increasingly paradoxical view of women's bodily
fluids--milk and menstrual blood--as simultaneously essential and
potentially fatal to the survival of the fetus and the newborn;
doctrinal debates on the fate of children who died before baptism;
accusations against Jews, who were charged with the ritual murder
of Christian children; and the so-called Children's Crusade of
1212, which was justified on the basis that corruption was an
inevitable part of a child's growth.
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