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15: - Philanthropic Institutions

from Part IV - Institutions and Activities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2022

By
Timothy S. Miller
Edited by
Sarah Bassett
Sarah Bassett
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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Summary

Chapter 15, “Philanthropic Institutions,” looks at the range of social services available to Constantinopolitan residents from the fourth century through the fifteenth century. It notes the contributions of monastics to the institution and organization of such institutions as orphanages, hospitals, leprosaria, and old age homes.

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hospitalorphanagehospiceleprosarium.
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The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople , pp. 245 - 262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Bennett, D., Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals (Leiden, 2017).Google Scholar
Brown, P., Poverty and Leadership in the Late Roman Empire (Hanover and London, 2002).Google Scholar
Constantelos, D., Byzantine Philanthropy and Social Welfare, 2nd ed. (New Rochelle, 1991).Google Scholar
Dagron, G., “Les moines et la ville,” TM 4 (1970): 227–76.Google Scholar
Holman, S., ed., Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society (Grand Rapids, 2008).Google Scholar
Miller, T., Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire, rev. ed. (Baltimore, 1997).Google Scholar
Miller, T., Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire (Washington, DC, 2003)Google Scholar
Miller, T. and Nesbitt, J., Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West (Ithaca, NY, 2014).Google Scholar

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