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In the social world of the third century Roman Empire the most important determinant of political and social status and advancement was the giving and receiving of patronage. By means of a close study of two of Cyprian of Carthage’s well known treatises, De opere et eleemosynis (On Almsgiving) and De habitu virginum (On the Dress of Virgins) within ...
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In the social world of the third century Roman Empire the most important determinant of political and social status and advancement was the giving and receiving of patronage. By means of a close study of two of Cyprian of Carthage’s well known treatises, De opere et eleemosynis (On Almsgiving) and De habitu virginum (On the Dress of Virgins) within ...
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`Blessed is Poverty'. Leo the Great on Almsgiving
Sacris Erudiri, 2007The author focuses on seven homilies in which Leo the Great (440-461) makes use of the Matthean Beatitudes to comment on proper attitudes towards wealth and poverty, referring to three verses in particular: (Matt 5:3, 6-7). The author examines how these verses from Matt 5 were interpreted to provide the wealthy with a self-interested reason for giving ...
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