Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge
Title | Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge PDF eBook |
Author | Miri Rubin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2002-05-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521893985 |
This is a detailed study of the forms in which charitable giving was organised in medieval Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, unravelling the economic and demographic factors which created the need for relief as well as the forms in which the community offered it.
Charitable Institutions of Medieval Cambridge
Title | Charitable Institutions of Medieval Cambridge PDF eBook |
Author | M. E. Rubin-Ungar |
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Release | 1984 |
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Charity and Religion in Medieval Europe
Title | Charity and Religion in Medieval Europe PDF eBook |
Author | James Brodman |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813215803 |
Challenges conventional views of medieval piety by demonstrating how the ideology of charity and its vision of the active life provided an important alternative to the ascetical, contemplative tradition emphasized by most historians
The Medieval Islamic Hospital
Title | The Medieval Islamic Hospital PDF eBook |
Author | Ahmed Ragab |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2015-10-14 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1107109604 |
The first monograph on Islamic hospitals, this volume examines their origins, development, architecture, social roles, and connections to non-Islamic institutions.
Charitable Activity in the Middle Ages
Title | Charitable Activity in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | M. E. Rubin-Ungar |
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Release | 1984 |
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Commemoration in Medieval Cambridge
Title | Commemoration in Medieval Cambridge PDF eBook |
Author | John S. Lee |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1783273348 |
An examination of how academic colleges commemorated their patrons in a rich variety of ways.
Experiences of Charity, 1250-1650
Title | Experiences of Charity, 1250-1650 PDF eBook |
Author | Anne M. Scott |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2016-03-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317137892 |
For a number of years scholars who are concerned with issues of poverty and the poor have turned away from the study of charity and poor relief, in order to search for a view of the life of the poor from the point of view of the poor themselves. Great studies have been conducted using a variety of records, resulting in seminal works that have enriched our understanding of pauper experiences and the influence and impact of poverty on societies. If we return our gaze to ’charity’ with the benefit of those studies' questions, approaches, sources and findings, what might we see differently about how charity was experienced as a concept and in practice, at both community and personal levels? In this collection, contributors explore the experience of charity towards the poor, considering it in spiritual, intellectual, emotional, personal, social, cultural and material terms. The approach is a comparative one: across different time periods, nations, and faiths. Contributors pay particular attention to the way faith inflected charity in the different national environments of England and France, as Catholicism and Calvinism became outlawed and/or minority faith positions in these respective nations. They ask how different faith and beliefs defined or shaped the act of charity, and explore whether these changed over time even within one faith. The sources used to answer such questions go beyond the textual as contributors analyse a range of additional sources that include the visual, aural, and material.