Charity and community in medieval Cambridge
by Rubin, Miri
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 changi…
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- Full title :Charity and community in medieval Cambridge / Miri Rubin.
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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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- Publication Date:1987
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1987
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 365 Seiten)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780511522444, 0511522444, 9780521323925, 0521323924, 9780521893985, 0521893984
- DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511522444
- oclc:ocn967406084
- LC Classification:HV250.C33
- Dewey Decimal:362.1/1/094265
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