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Constantelos, Demetrios J.

BYZANTINE PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL WELFARE Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket

Rutgers University Press, 1968

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Year of publication
1968
Author
Constantelos, Demetrios J.
Publishers
Rutgers University Press
Keyword
Social & Cultural Byzantine Empire Byzantine Studies Medieval, Studies Mediaeval
Cover description
Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover

Description

DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and tears. DJ has a few small pieces missing. Book has minor rubbing. ; Rutgers Byzantine Series; One of the noblest and least understood attributes of the Byzantine Empire was a pervasive concern for what is now called philanthropy. Byzantine philanthropy was part of an enormously complex society: there were well-established orphanages, homes for the aged, hospitals, and leprosaria with advanced medical practices, refuges for displaced persons, poorhouses, hospices for pilgrims and commercial travelers, homes for reformed prostitutes, and cemeteries for foreigners.
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