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Author:   Mayke de Jong
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   12
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.731kg
ISBN:  

9789004104839

ISBN 10:   9004104836
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 December 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations Introduction I. Child Oblation: Its Early History 1. Early Monasticism 2. Child Oblation in Benedict's Rule 3. The Rule and Other Rules 4. Oblation in the Visigothic Realm 5. Missionaries and Child Oblation II. Carolingian Law and Child Oblation 1. 'God's Precept and Our Decree' 2. Legislation on Child Oblation 3. The Commemoration: Smaragdus and Hildemar 4. Child Oblation as a Source of Conflict III. Registration and Commemoration 1. The Petitia of 817 2. The Profession Book of St Gall 3. The Register of Rheims 4. The Noticia of San Salvatore/Santa Giulia 5. Oblates and Novices in Corvey 6. Child Oblation and Commemoration IV. Monasticism and Child Recruitment 1. Nutriti and Conversi 2. Oblates, Purity and Priesthood 3. Claustrum versus Saeculum: Hildemar on Child Rearing 4. V. Models and Rituals of Child Oblation 1. Biblical Models 2. Votum 3. Oblation and Mass 4. Rituals of Oblation 5. The Significance of the Oblation Ritual VI. Commendatio and Oblatio 1. Ritualising hild Oblation 2. Commeendation, Conversion and the Court 3. Educating for God: Parents, Godparents and Foster Parents 4. Familiaritas 5. Spiritual and Natural Kinship 6. Keeping while Giving VII. Child Oblation and the State 1. The School of the Lord's Service 2. The Formation of An Elite: Scholastici 3. Monastic: Stability and the State 4. Invitus et Coactus: Monastic Prisoners VIII. Childeren as Gifts: A Conclusion 1. Gifts and 'Pure Gifts' 2. Who controlled the Gifts? 3. Children as Holocausta Epilogue Bibliography Index

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'.. .excellente itude, fort bien documentie'<br>L. Wankenne, Revue binidictine, 1996.<br>' Die Ausf]hrungen bestechen durch gro_e Quellenkenntnis, lebendige Schilderung und die Ber]cksichtigung des aktuellen Forschungsstandes....'<br>M.S., Deutsches Archiv f]r Erforschung des Mittelalters, 1996.<br>' an important, well-informed, and most thought-provoking book, which easily sustained this reader's interest from beginning to end.'<br>Alain J. Stoclet, Speculum, 1998.<br>

Author Information

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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