Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Volume 5, Slice 8

CHARIOT CHARLES MARTEL CHARISIUS, FLAVIUS SOSIPATER CHARLESTON (Illinois, U.S.A) CHARITON CHARLESTON (South Carolina, U.S.A.) CHARITY AND CHARITIES CHARLESTON (West Virginia, U....

The study of early communities has brought to light the history of the development of the family. "Marriage in its lowest phases is by no means a matter of affection or companio...

Society in a Greek state was divided into two parts, citizens and slaves. The citizens required leisure for education, war and government. The slaves were their ministers and se...

The words that suggest most clearly the Roman attitude towards what we call charity are _liberalitas_, _beneficentia_ and _pietas_. The two former are almost synonymous (Cicero,...

With Christianity two elements came into fusion, the Jewish and the Greco-Roman. To trace this fusion and its results it is necessary to describe the Jewish system of charity, a...

and monasteries, and (3) "hospitals, deaconries and ecclesiastical wards for the poor," were calculated in money and distributed; and the first day in every month St Gregory dis...

It remains to trace the history of thought and administration in relation to (1) the development of charitable responsibility in the parish, and the use of tithe and church prop...

During the Reformation, which extended, it should be understood, from the middle of the 14th century to the reign of James I., the groundwork of the theory of charity was being...

good English biography for its date; a more recent life is R. Putnam's _Charles the Bold_ (1908). For a general sketch of the relations between France and Burgundy at this time...