Gift Giving and the Aristocracy, 1307-1485
by
Joel T. Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Originally published in 1972, The Purchase of Paradise is an account of medieval philanthropy and looks at the late medieval aristocracy as a social, rather than political group. The book analyses their voluntary behaviour, their gift giving and the Church, and addresses the nature of charity in the...