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Jong, M.B. de

Jong, M.B. de

Mayke de Jong, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1950. M.A. from the University of Amsterdam. Assistant Professor of Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Junior Fellow (1 September 1984 – 31 August 1985)

The main aim was the completion of my thesis Child and cloister in the Early Middle Ages. Aspects of Child Oblation in the Frankish Monastic World, 500-900. My second goal has was a preliminary inquiry into the practice of commendatio puerorum, i.e. the entrusting of aristocratic youngsters to noble households and the royal court, with special attention to Merovingian hagiography.