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020			_a9789004246614 _q(electronic book)
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024	7		_a10.1163/9789004246614 _2DOI
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050		4	_aBX2470 _b.D44 1996
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100	1		_aDe Jong, Mayke.
245	1	0	_aIn Samuel's image : _bchild oblation in the early medieval West / _cby Mayke De Jong.
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aNew York : _bE.J. Brill, _c1996.
300			_a1 online resource (xv, 360 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBrill's studies in intellectual history, _x0920-8607 ; _vv. 12
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-344) and index.
505	0	0	_aPreliminary 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.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aEarly 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	_aChild oblates _zEurope _xHistory.
650		0	_aChurch history _yMiddle Ages, 600-1500.
651		0	_aEurope _xChurch history _y600-1500.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tIn Samuel’s Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West _dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 1995, _z9789004104839
830		0	_aBrill's Studies in Intellectual History _v12.
830		0	_aBrill's Studies in Intellectual History Online, ISBN: 9789004253339.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004246614
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