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TAKING THEIR PLACE:
BENEDICTINE CHILD OBLATES AT ELEVENTH-CENTURY CANTERBURY
CATHEDRAL PRIORY
BY
REBECCA KING CERLING
BA, Wheaton College (IL), 1983
MA, Wheaton College, (IL), 1988
MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2006
DISSERTATION
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History
in the Dornsife College of
the University of Southern California
2014
Object Description
| Title | Taking their place: Benedictine child oblates at eleventh-century Canterbury Cathedral priory |
| Author | Cerling, Rebecca King |
| Author email | bkingcerling@gmail.com;bkingcerling@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2014-05-12 |
| Date submitted | 2014-06-20 |
| Date approved | 2014-06-20 |
| Restricted until | 2020-06-20 |
| Date published | 2020-06-20 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Bitel, Lisa M. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Bennett, Judith M. Albertson, David C. |
| Abstract | Boys, some as young as six, populated English cathedral priories both before and after the Norman Conquest of 1066 as child oblates. Medieval historians have examined the practice of child oblation from the perspective of the parents who gave the children to be monks, and from the perspective of the monastic officials who received them. More difficult to trace, however, is the oblates’ own perspective. In this dissertation, I ask how so many oblates grew up to embrace the monastic vocation assigned to them by their parents and the church. To tackle the question, I examined records of the physical space of Canterbury Cathedral priory in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, along with confraternity agreements, saints’ lives, narrative histories, and contemporary theological writings. Using concepts from human geography, anthropology, rhetoric, and art history to analyze that evidence, I located places in the cathedral precincts that contributed to an oblate’s monastic formation. The dissertation follows an oblate’s route through the monastery from his initial orientation to the dormitory and the toilet facilities through his meditation in the choir after making his own monastic profession. The dissertation’s argument is two-pronged: First, I contend that physical space can be used as evidence to trace children’s perspective since sources created by children themselves are rarely available. Second, I argue that the oblates’ spatial environment contributed to the way in which they grew up and took their place as adults in their communities. |
| Keyword | Benedictine; oblate; children; Anselm; space/place; Canterbury |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Cerling, Rebecca King |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-CerlingReb-2569.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume12/etd-CerlingReb-2569.pdf |
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| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | TAKING THEIR PLACE: BENEDICTINE CHILD OBLATES AT ELEVENTH-CENTURY CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL PRIORY BY REBECCA KING CERLING BA, Wheaton College (IL), 1983 MA, Wheaton College, (IL), 1988 MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2006 DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in the Dornsife College of the University of Southern California 2014 |
