Resumen de Le sourire aux anges: enfance et spiritualité au Moyen Age (XIIe-XVe siècle)
The Smile of the Angels. Childhood and Spirituality in the Middle Ages (12th-15th Centuries) - This paper explores the concept of the spirituality of childhood in the Middles Ages. The infans, — the child who does not yet speak — played a prominent role in medieval spirituality. The infant is often depicted in texts, literary and others, as the natural intermediate between man and God. Considered innocent, because it is free from sin of any kind, the child shares the virtues of the Son of God. Thus Christ returning to earth, as in the exempta, is often portrayed as a child. Lastly, the image of the infant is used to represent the elect — angels and souls in medieval iconography — symbolically relating the child to paradise and salvation.
