Climbing ladders: children and monastic formation in England, c.950-1200
<p>This thesis seeks to understand the lives of oblates, children given by their parents to Benedictine monasteries in England between c.950 and 1200. Scholars have long recognised that children were important to monastic recruitment and drawn attention to the significance of the ritual by whi...
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2019
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