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- Title
The Drowned Child: An Essay in Medieval Cultural History.
- Authors
GOLDBERG, JEREMY
- Abstract
The article discusses the cultural context surrounding drowning deaths and near-drowning accidents of Middle Ages children. The author attempts to correlate the role of water in the deaths of children with the waters used in baptism as well as in trials, emphasizes the lack of historiographic sources, especially primary sources, concerning children, and describes the frequency with which children's recoveries from near-drownings were touted as miracles. Statistics gathered on the frequency of drownings are offered.
- Subjects
CULTURAL history; HISTORY of children; ACCIDENTS; DROWNING; MIRACLES; MEDIEVAL historiography; BAPTISM; ORDEAL; RESUSCITATION from drowning
- Publication
Werkstatt Geschichte (Klartext Verlag), 2013, Issue 63, p7
- ISSN
0942-704X
- Publication type
Article