Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleOffering Sons to God in the Monastery: Child Oblation, Monastic Benevolence, and the Cistercian Order in the Middle Ages.AuthorsPeters, GregAbstractExamines the reason why child oblation flourished in monasteries during the early and high Middle Ages. Origins of the practice of the Cistercian regulation against child oblation; Rise of monasticism in the Church; Definition of child oblation.SubjectsCHILD oblates; CISTERCIAN monasteries; MIDDLE AgesPublicationCistercian Studies Quarterly, 2003, Vol 38, Issue 3, p285ISSN1062-6549Publication typeArticle