The orphans of Byzantium child welfare in the Christian empire / [electronic resource] :
Timothy S. Miller.
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2003.
- xiv, 340 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-325) and index.
The ancient world -- The new Jerusalem -- Byzantine guardianship -- The Byzantine church -- Abandonment and adoption -- The Orphanotropheion : administration -- The Orphanotropheion : the orphan school -- Did it work? -- The West.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 1048-1118.
Orphanages--Byzantine Empire. Child welfare--Byzantine Empire. Guardian and ward--Byzantine Empire.