عنوان

The orphans of Byzantium :

شابک

0813213134

شماره

b415544

عنوان اصلي

The orphans of Byzantium :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

child welfare in the Christian empire /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Timothy S. Miller

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Washington, D.C. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Catholic University of America Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c2003

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiv, 340 p. ;

ابعاد

23 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-325) and index

متن يادداشت

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

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Historian Timothy Miller argues that it is necessary to look at the history of orphanages, of their successes and failures, and of their complex roles as social institutions for unwanted and homeless children. In The Orphans of Byzantium, Miller provides a study of the evolution of orphanages in the Byzantine Empire. Contrary to popular belief and even expert opinion, medieval child-welfare systems were sophisticated, especially in the Byzantine world. Combining ancient Roman legal institutions with Christian concepts of charity, the Byzantine Empire evolved a child-welfare system that tried either to select foster parents for homeless children or to place them in group homes that could provide food, shelter, and education. Miller discusses how successive Byzantine emperors tried to improve Roman regulations to provide greater security for orphans, and notes that they achieved their greatest success when they widened the pool of potential guardians by allowing women relatives to accept the duties of guardianship. After a thorough discussion of each element of the Byzantine child care system, the book closes by showing how Byzantine orphanages provided models for later Western group homes, especially in Italy. From these renaissance orphan asylums evolved the system of modern European and American religious orphanages until the foster care movement emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Miller's study of these systems can provide useful models for reforming the troubled child-welfare system today

موضوع مستند نشده

Alexius, I Comnenus,1048-1118

موضوع مستند نشده

Child welfare-- Byzantine Empire

موضوع مستند نشده

Guardian and ward-- Byzantine Empire

موضوع مستند نشده

Orphanages-- Byzantine Empire

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Miller, Timothy S

تاريخ عمليات

20040128112107.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y