Abstract
Abstract How understanding, caring, and loving were the Byzantines towards their children? Was childhood in Byzantium an autonomous period of life or just a passage to the world of adults? The answer is not simple. Texts from the Apocryphal Gospels as well as from hagiographical narrative reveal that Byzantine writers distinguished children into good and bad, those ‘worthy of God's grace’ and those who demonstrated ‘evil’ qualities. The level of children's proximity to the code of adult behaviour determined the views of adults towards their descendants accordingly, and defined children's relations to other social groups.
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