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The orphans of Byzantium child welfare in the Christian empire /

Main Author: Miller, Timothy S.
Corporate Authors: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2003.
Subjects:
Alexius > I Comnenus, > Emperor of the East, > 1048-1118.
Orphanages > Byzantine Empire.
Child welfare > Byzantine Empire.
Guardian and ward > Byzantine Empire.
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Table of Contents:
  • The ancient world
  • The new Jerusalem
  • Byzantine guardianship
  • The Byzantine church
  • Abandonment and adoption
  • The Orphanotropheion : administration
  • The Orphanotropheion : the orphan school
  • Did it work?
  • The West.

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