"Companion to ... Poverty and charity in the Jewish community of Medieval Egypt"--P. [xi].
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-208) and index.
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.
