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This text explores the genesis, development, and religious significance of a literary and iconographic motif, involving a gang of urchins, usually male, who mock or assault a holy or eccentric person, typically an adult. Originating in the biblical tale of Elisha's mockery (2 Kings 2.23-24), this motif recurs in literature, hagiography, and art, from antiquity up to our own time, strikingly defying the conventional Judeo Christian and Romantic image of the child as a symbol of innocence.

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Book category Books in English The arts Art treatments & subjects Human figures depicted in art

• Full title: Evil Children in Religion, Literature, and Art
• Author: Eric J. Ziolkowski
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 253
• EAN: 9780333918951
• ISBN: 0333918959
• ID: 04600034
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 609 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. May 2001

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