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Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge

By Miri Rubin

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521893984, 9780511522444, 9780521323925, 9780521893985
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2965661 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Pages
380\379
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This study develops our understanding of medieval society through an examination of its charitable activities. In a detailed study of the forms in which relief was organised in medieval Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, the book unravels the economic and demographic factors which created the need for relief as well as the forms in which the community offered it. With continual reference to the religious teachings of priests and friars and the changing ideas of lay piety, Dr Rubin relates the changing forms of charitable giving to the shift in attitudes towards community and social order, towards relations between laity and clergy, and towards the poor. A local study is thus set in a wide comparative context, drawing together contributions in the fields of social, religious, economic and urban history.

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