The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages : : An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza /

The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages : : An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza / / Mark R. Cohen.

Show other versions (1)

They are voices that have been silent for centuries: those of captives and refugees, widows and orphans, the blind and infirm, and the underclass of the "working poor." Now, for the first time, the voices of the poor in the Middle Ages come to life in this moving book by historian Mark Coh...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Cohen, Mark R.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2006
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 8 halftones.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note
  • Part One. Letters About the Poor and About Charity
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Basic Themes
  • Chapter Two. Taxonomy: Structure and Conjuncture
  • Chapter Three. The Foreign Poor
  • Chapter Four. Indigent Captives and Refugees
  • Chapter Five. Debt and the Poll Tax
  • Chapter Six. Women and Poverty
  • Chapter Seven. Letters Regarding Public Charity
  • Part Two. Charity Lists
  • Chapter Eight. Alms Lists
  • Chapter Nine. Donor Lists
  • Part Three. Epilogue
  • Chapter Ten. Poverty and Charity in the Fourteenth Century
  • List of Geniza Texts
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Similar Items