Obraz dziecka w XV‑wiecznej hagiografii krakowskiej

The aim of this article is to present how the hagiographic context influenced the image of the child and to demonstrate the ways in which the experiences of young children were portrayed in the late medieval period. The fifteenth century miracles of the Krakow saints are analyzed in terms of the child’s relationship with its parents, the immediate environment, other children, as well as the ways in which young children experienced pain, suffering, and illness. Miracle arratives fulfilled important functions for the socjety of the time, shaping and depicting the socio‑cultural attitudes of the adult world towards children in a social, moral, and religious context.