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050	0	4	_aHV963 _b.O774 2003
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100	1		_aMiller, Timothy S., _d1945- _e1
245	1	0	_aThe orphans of Byzantium _bchild welfare in the Christian empire / _cTimothy S. Miller.
260			_aWashington, D.C. : _bCatholic University of America Press, _c(c)2003.
300			_a1 online resource (xiv, 340 pages)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aThe ancient world -- _tThe new Jerusalem -- _tByzantine guardianship -- _tThe Byzantine church -- _tAbandonment and adoption -- _tThe Orphanotropheion : administration -- _tThe Orphanotropheion : the orphan school -- _tDid it work? -- _tThe West.
520	0		_aHistorian 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.
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650		0	_aOrphanages _zByzantine Empire.
650		0	_aChild welfare _zByzantine Empire.
600	0	0	_aAlexius _bI Comnenus, _cEmperor of the East, _d1048-1118.
650		0	_aGuardian and ward _zByzantine Empire.
600	0	4	_aAlexius, _bI Comnenus, _cEmperor of the East, _d1048-1118.
600	0	6	_aAlexis _bIer Comnène, _cempereur byzantin, _d1048-1118.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=493615&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell