The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire.(Book Review)

The Historian | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire. By Timothy S. Miller. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 340. $44.95.)

Introducing his comprehensive study of child welfare in the Byzantine empire, the author quotes Anna Comnena on three twelfth-century strategies for the care of orphans: supervision by adult relatives, installment in monasteries, and enrollment in orphanages. What follows is "an extended commentary on Anna's two-sentence passage," covering the whole millennium of the Christian empire and also ...

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