"A tender age" : cultural anxieties over the child in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / by William F. MacLehose.

[New York, N.Y.] : Columbia University Press, [2006]

Title from opening screen (viewed May 11, 2006).

Available in: Gutenberg-e (Columbia University Press).

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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references.

Nurturing danger : twelfth- and thirteenth-century medicine and the problem(s) of the child -- Suffer little children : baptism, heresy, and the debates over the nature of the child -- Simplicity and faith : childhood, maternity, and the creation of a Jewish threat -- "The path of the foolish children" : delusion, disillusionment, and the challenge of the Children's Crusade of 1212.