Article: Stephen the great: leadership and patronage on the fifteenth-century Ottoman frontier.

Introduction

Much has been written regarding the nature of charity in early modern Europe through examinations of that phenomenon in Spain, France, Germany, England, and the Spanish colonial possessions in the New World. This study has very little to contribute that would elucidate the history of charity in those regions, but will attempt to add to our collective understanding of charity in modern Europe through a comparative study of royal patronage on the Ottoman frontier of Eastern Europe. The historical problem this study attempts to address is how patronage in eastern Europe, specifically that found in the Ottoman frontier province of Moldavia, compares to ...

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