The voice of the poor in the Middle Ages : an anthology of documents from the Cairo Geniza / Mark R. Cohen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400850617 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Voice of the poor in the Middle Ages : an anthology of documents from the Cairo Geniza.DDC classification:
  • 363.5/089/924062 22
LOC classification:
  • HV17 .V65 2005eb
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Contents:
PART ONE: LETTERS ABOUT THE POOR AND ABOUT CHARITY: Introduction -- Basic themes -- Taxonomy: structure and conjunction -- The foreign poor -- Indigent captives and refugees -- Debt and poll tax -- Women and poverty -- Letters regarding public charity -- PART TWO: CHARITY LISTS: Alms lists -- Donor lists -- PART THREE: EPILOGUE: Poverty and charity in the Fourteenth Century.
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"Companion to ... Poverty and charity in the Jewish community of Medieval Egypt"--P. [xi].

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-208) and index.

PART ONE: LETTERS ABOUT THE POOR AND ABOUT CHARITY: Introduction -- Basic themes -- Taxonomy: structure and conjunction -- The foreign poor -- Indigent captives and refugees -- Debt and poll tax -- Women and poverty -- Letters regarding public charity -- PART TWO: CHARITY LISTS: Alms lists -- Donor lists -- PART THREE: EPILOGUE: Poverty and charity in the Fourteenth Century.

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