In Samuel's Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West - Couverture rigide

Jong, Mayke De

 
9789004104839: In Samuel's Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004104836 ISBN 13 : 9789004104839
Editeur : Brill, 1995

Synopsis

Early medieval religious communities were filled with monks and nuns who spent almost their entire lives within the monastic confines. Many had arrived in childhood, through an irrevocable act of parental sacrifice (oblatio). According to Benedict's Rule, parents were to donate their sons "to God in the monastery", following the biblical example of Hannah offering her son Samuel at the Temple.

From the twelfth century onwards, this once widespread practice became increasingly controversial. Why did parents give away their children? Were they driven by economic necessity?

This book argues that child oblation was anything but a religious disguise for abandoning superfluous offspring. Instead, it was a sacrifice, and should be viewed within the context of gift-giving, religious and otherwise, which assumed such a central importance in early medieval societies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mayke de Jong received a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam (1986) and is presently Professor of Medieval History at Utrecht University. She has published on a range of early medieval topics, notably monasticism and political ritual.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004104836
ISBN 13 
9789004104839
Reliure
Cuir/luxe
Nombre de pages
376
Coordonnées du fabricant
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