Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Results of a Paradigm Shift in the History of Mentality

1. Albrecht Classen / Philippe Ariès and the Consequences: History of Childhood, Family Relations, and Personal Emotions: Where do we stand today?	1
2. Valerie L. Garver / The Influence of Monastic Ideals upon Carolingian Conceptions of Childhood 67
3. Eva Parra Membrives / Mutterliebe aus weiblicher Perspektive: Zur Bedeutung von Affektivität in Frau Avas "Leben Jesu" (Maternal Love from a Female Perspective: On the Significance of Affection in Frau Ava's "Leben Jesu") 87
4. Diane Peters Auslander / Victims or Martyrs: Children, Anti-Semitism, and the Stress of Change in Medieval England	105
5. Mary Dzon / Joseph and the Amazing Christ-Child of Late-Medieval Legend 135
6. Karen K. Jambeck / The "Tretiz" of Walter of Bibbesworth: Cultivating the Vernacular 159
7. Nicole Clifton / "The Seven Sages of Rome", Children's Literature, and the Auchinleck Manuscript 185
8. Juanita Feros Ruys / Peter Abelard's "Carmen ad Astralabium" and Medieval Parent-Child Didactic Texts: The Evidence for Parent-Child Relationships in the Middle Ages 203
9. David F. Tinsley / Reflections of Childhood in Medieval Hagiographical Writing: The Case of Hartmann von Aue's "Der arme Heinrich" 229
10. Carol Dover / Why Did Lancelot Need an Education? 247
11. Tracy Adams / Medieval Mothers and their Children: The Case of Isabeau of Bavaria 265
12. Marilyn Sandidge / Changing Contexts of Infanticide in Medieval English Texts 291
13. Jean E. Jost / Medieval Children: Treatment in Middle English Literature 307
14. Daniel F. Pigg / Margery Kempe and Her Son: Representing the Discourse of Family 329
15. Juliann Vitullo / Fashioning Fatherhood: Leon Battista Alberti's "Art of Parenting" 341
16. Laurel Reed / Art, Life, Charm and Titian's "Portrait of Clarissa Strozzi" 355
17. David Graizbord / Converso Children Under the Inquisitorial Microscope in the Seventeenth Century: What May the Sources Tell us about Their Lives? 373 
18. Allison P. Coudert / Educating Girls in Early Modern Europe and America 389
19. Christopher Carlsmith / The Child in the Classroom: Teaching a Course on the History of Childhood in Medieval/Renaissance Europe 415
Contributors 433
Index 439
List of Illustrations 445