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In Samuel's image : (Record no. 41497)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 95025956
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789004246614
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Canceled/invalid ISBN 9789004104839
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1163/9789004246614
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System control number (OCoLC)33403900
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Original cataloging agency NL-LeKB
Transcribing agency NL-LeKB
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Geographic area code e------
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BX2470
Item number .D44 1996
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code HBJD
Source bicssc
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Subject category code HIS
Subject category code subdivision 010000
Source bisacsh
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 271/.0083
Edition information 20
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name De Jong, Mayke.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title In Samuel's image :
Remainder of title child oblation in the early medieval West /
Statement of responsibility, etc. by Mayke De Jong.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Leiden ;
-- New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer E.J. Brill,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 1996.
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Extent 1 online resource (xv, 360 pages) :
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Carrier type term online resource
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490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Brill's studies in intellectual history,
International Standard Serial Number 0920-8607 ;
Volume/sequential designation v. 12
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-344) and index.
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: CHILD OBLATION: ITS EARLY HISTORY -- CHAPTER TWO: CAROLINGIAN LAW AND CHILD OBLATION -- CHAPTER THREE: REGISTRATION AND COMMEMORATION -- CHAPTER FOUR: MONASTICISM AND CHILD RECRUITMENT -- CHAPTER FIVE: MODELS AND RITUALS OF CHILD OBLATION -- CHAPTER SIX: COMMENDATIO AND ΟΒΙΛΉΟ -- CHAPTER SEVEN: CHILD OBLATION AND THE STATE -- CHAPTER EIGHT: CHILDREN AS GIFTS: A CONCLUSION -- EPILOGUE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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Terms governing access Available to subscribing member institutions only.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Child oblates
Geographic subdivision Europe
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Church history
Chronological subdivision Middle Ages, 600-1500.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Europe
General subdivision Church history
Chronological subdivision 600-1500.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Print version:
Title In Samuel’s Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West
Place, publisher, and date of publication Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1995,
International Standard Book Number 9789004104839
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Volume/sequential designation 12.
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Online, ISBN: 9789004253339.
856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Public note DOI:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004246614">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004246614</a>

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