Oblatio puerorum: Otroci v meniški kulturi pozne antike in zgodnjega srednjega veka

Jakob Piletič

doi:10.4312/keria.25.2.175-195

Authors

Jakob Piletič University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Theology; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/keria.25.2.175-195

Keywords:

childhood oblation, children, oblates, early monasticism, monastic culture, Basil, Benedict, monastic education

Abstract

Children have been part of monastic communities since the beginning of the cenobitic monasticism, for various reasons. The child and the monastery are two seemingly incompatible concepts meeting in the now obscure, but once well-established, religious practice of child oblates, which began its rise at the decline of the ancient culture. In this paper we will outline the religious phenomenon of child oblates, children who were ‘abandoned’, ‘given’ or ‘consecrated’ to monasteries by their parents at an early age for various reasons. The Rule of St Benedict, the absolute code of Western monasticism, mentions children in the monastery in several places, especially child oblates, and institutionalises them as a way of consecrated life. What was their position and role in the monastic community? How did this practice develop and spread from the East to the West? What motivated this practice and what were the parents’ motives for doing so? Is it really just an ancient expositio or are the reasons more religious in nature?

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