Title: The poor in the Middle Ages : an essay in social history /
Authors: Mollat, Michel.
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Social history; Poor History.; Charities History; Poverty Psychological aspects; Poverty history; Charities history; Poverty psychology; Europe Social conditions
Contents: The weak overshadowed by the powerful (fifth to eleventh century) -- Humble Christians (late eleventh to early thirteenth century) -- The destitute confront the rich (from Saint Francis to the great plague) -- Paupers and beggars: alarming presences (mid-fourteenth to early sixteenth century).