Joel T Rosenthal

The Purchase of Paradise

The Social Function of Aristocratic Benevolence, 1307-1485. Sprachen: Englisch. 21,6 cm / 14,0 cm / 1,1 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9781487572525
23,00 €
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Dezember 1972
University of Toronto Press

This account of medieval philanthropy books at the late medieval aristocracy as a social, rather than a political group, and analyses an aspect of their voluntary behaviour, their gift giving to the Church.

Joel T. Rosenthal received a B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Since 1964 he has taught history and social science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he is now Associate Professor of History.