medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Aren`t "oblati" orphans given to the monks in order to bring up and educate
them to novices? But in the later centuries it could also embrace all lay
people living in the cloister.
Marcus Frings
University of Technology Darmstadt
Chris Laning schrieb:
> He started out with "[Johann] the oblate" -- which evidently _can_
> have this meaning in modern German, but historic sources seem to
> indicate that "Oblate" in German primarily means "the host used in
> communion; any wafer of this sort". A modern English->German
> dictionary glosses the meaning "oblate" as "Laienbruder,
> Laienschwester" which is pretty transparently "lay brother, lay
> sister".
>
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