ABSTRACT
‘The Fathers and the children’, in The Church and Childhood (Studies in Church History 31), ed. Diana Wood (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994).
Additional Note: see now O.M. Bakke, When Children became People: the birth of childhood in early Christianity, tr. Brian McNeil (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005); Cornelia B. Horn and John W. Martens, ‘Let the little children come to me’: childhood and children in early Christianity (Washington DC: CUA Press, 2009).
n. 52: on the representation of the Christ-child, see Averil Cameron, ‘The Cult of the Virgin in Late Antiquity’, in The Church and Mary (Studies in Church History 39), ed. R.N. Swanson (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2004), pp. 1–21.
Updates:
n. 5: David G. Hunter, Marriage, Celibacy and Heresy in Ancient Christianity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
n. 38: Maureen A. Tilley, Donatist Martyr Stories: the Church in conflict in Roman North Africa (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1996).
n. 44: Wendy Mayer and Pauline Allen, John Chrysostom (London: Routledge, 2000).
