In Samuel's Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West by Mayke De Jong

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

Mayke De Jong

360 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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...

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