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Constantelos, Demetrios J.

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

Rutgers University Press, 1968

70,00 €

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(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1968
Autore
Constantelos, Demetrios J.
Editori
Rutgers University Press
Soggetto
Social & Cultural Byzantine Empire Byzantine Studies Medieval, Studies Mediaeval
Descrizione
Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket
Descrizione
Hardcover

Descrizione

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.