Reidar Aasgaard is professor of intellectual history at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published numerous books and articles on the New Testament, early Christianity, Christian Apocrypha, Augustine, and children and the family in antiquity. He is director of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe".Cornelia Horn is full professor of Christian Oriental studies at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle, Germany. She has published extensively in the fields of religion, literature, history, and society in the Mediterranean world, focusing in particular on women, children, extracanonical traditions, interreligious relations, and Syriac and Arabic Christianity.Oana Maria Cojocaru earned her PhD degree in intellectual history (Byzantine studies) at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her doctoral thesis, which is part of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe", deals with representations of children and childhood in medieval Byzantine hagiography.

• IntroductionReidar Aasgaard and Cornelia Horn, with Oana Maria Cojocaru Roots of character and flowers of virtues: a philosophy of childhood in Plato’s Republic Malin Grahn-Wilder Aristotle on children and childhood Hallvard J. Fossheim Roman conceptions of childhood: the modes of family commemoration and academic prescription W. Martin Bloomer Greco-Roman pediatrics Patricia Baker Ancient Jewish traditions: Moses’ infancy and the remaking of biblical Miriam in Antiquity Hagith Sivan Slave children in the first-century Jesus movement Marianne Bjelland Kartzow Aspects of childhood in second- and third-century Christianity: the case of Clement of Alexandria Henny Fiskå Hägg Children and childhood in Neoplatonism Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson Childhood in 400 CE: Jerome, John Chrysostom, and Augustine on children and their formation Reidar Aasgaard Children in Oriental Christian and Greek hagiography from the early Byzantine world (ca. 400–800 CE) Cornelia Horn "Pour out the blood and remove the evil from him": The creation of a ritual of birth (‘aqīqa) in Islam in the eighth century Mohammed Hocine Benkheira Conceptions of children and youth in Carolingian capitularies Valerie L. Garver Children and youth in monastic life: Western Europe 400–1250 Brian Patrick McGuire Childhood in middle and late Byzantium: ninth to fifteenth centuries Alice-Mary Talbot New Perspectives on parent-

Reidar Aasgaard is professor of intellectual history at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published numerous books and articles on the New Testament, early Christianity, Christian Apocrypha, Augustine, and children and the family in antiquity. He is director of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe".Cornelia Horn is full professor of Christian Oriental studies at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle, Germany. She has published extensively in the fields of religion, literature, history, and society in the Mediterranean world, focusing in particular on women, children, extracanonical traditions, interreligious relations, and Syriac and Arabic Christianity.Oana Maria Cojocaru earned her PhD degree in intellectual history (Byzantine studies) at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her doctoral thesis, which is part of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe", deals with representations of children and childhood in medieval Byzantine hagiography.

• IntroductionReidar Aasgaard and Cornelia Horn, with Oana Maria Cojocaru Roots of character and flowers of virtues: a philosophy of childhood in Plato’s Republic Malin Grahn-Wilder Aristotle on children and childhood Hallvard J. Fossheim Roman conceptions of childhood: the modes of family commemoration and academic prescription W. Martin Bloomer Greco-Roman pediatrics Patricia Baker Ancient Jewish traditions: Moses’ infancy and the remaking of biblical Miriam in Antiquity Hagith Sivan Slave children in the first-century Jesus movement Marianne Bjelland Kartzow Aspects of childhood in second- and third-century Christianity: the case of Clement of Alexandria Henny Fiskå Hägg Children and childhood in Neoplatonism Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson Childhood in 400 CE: Jerome, John Chrysostom, and Augustine on children and their formation Reidar Aasgaard Children in Oriental Christian and Greek hagiography from the early Byzantine world (ca. 400–800 CE) Cornelia Horn "Pour out the blood and remove the evil from him": The creation of a ritual of birth (‘aqīqa) in Islam in the eighth century Mohammed Hocine Benkheira Conceptions of children and youth in Carolingian capitularies Valerie L. Garver Children and youth in monastic life: Western Europe 400–1250 Brian Patrick McGuire Childhood in middle and late Byzantium: ninth to fifteenth centuries Alice-Mary Talbot New Perspectives on parent-

Reidar Aasgaard is professor of intellectual history at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published numerous books and articles on the New Testament, early Christianity, Christian Apocrypha, Augustine, and children and the family in antiquity. He is director of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe".Cornelia Horn is full professor of Christian Oriental studies at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle, Germany. She has published extensively in the fields of religion, literature, history, and society in the Mediterranean world, focusing in particular on women, children, extracanonical traditions, interreligious relations, and Syriac and Arabic Christianity.Oana Maria Cojocaru earned her PhD degree in intellectual history (Byzantine studies) at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her doctoral thesis, which is part of the research project "Tiny Voices from the Past: New Perspectives on Childhood in Early Europe", deals with representations of children and childhood in medieval Byzantine hagiography.

• IntroductionReidar Aasgaard and Cornelia Horn, with Oana Maria Cojocaru Roots of character and flowers of virtues: a philosophy of childhood in Plato’s Republic Malin Grahn-Wilder Aristotle on children and childhood Hallvard J. Fossheim Roman conceptions of childhood: the modes of family commemoration and academic prescription W. Martin Bloomer Greco-Roman pediatrics Patricia Baker Ancient Jewish traditions: Moses’ infancy and the remaking of biblical Miriam in Antiquity Hagith Sivan Slave children in the first-century Jesus movement Marianne Bjelland Kartzow Aspects of childhood in second- and third-century Christianity: the case of Clement of Alexandria Henny Fiskå Hägg Children and childhood in Neoplatonism Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson Childhood in 400 CE: Jerome, John Chrysostom, and Augustine on children and their formation Reidar Aasgaard Children in Oriental Christian and Greek hagiography from the early Byzantine world (ca. 400–800 CE) Cornelia Horn "Pour out the blood and remove the evil from him": The creation of a ritual of birth (‘aqīqa) in Islam in the eighth century Mohammed Hocine Benkheira Conceptions of children and youth in Carolingian capitularies Valerie L. Garver Children and youth in monastic life: Western Europe 400–1250 Brian Patrick McGuire Childhood in middle and late Byzantium: ninth to fifteenth centuries Alice-Mary Talbot New Perspectives on parent-