The voice of the poor in the Middle Ages : an anthology of documents from the Cairo Geniza /
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- PART ONE: LETTERS ABOUT THE POOR AND ABOUT CHARITY: Introduction
- Basic themes
- Taxonomy: structure and conjunction
- The foreign poor
- Indigent captives and refugees
- Debt and poll tax
- Women and poverty
- Letters regarding public charity
- PART TWO: CHARITY LISTS: Alms lists
- Donor lists
- PART THREE: EPILOGUE: Poverty and charity in the Fourteenth Century.