TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michael Borgolte
AU  - Zachary Chitwood
TI  - World History as the History of Foundations (3000 BCE to 1500 CE)
T2  - Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East,
SN  - 9789004414488
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Endowments
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Religious basis and sovereign practice : intercultural comparisons -- Foundations for gods and ancestors -- Foundations for individuals after the revolution of the axial age -- Rulers as founders and policymakers of foundations -- Societal development and philanthropic motivations : towards a transcultural synthesis -- A transcultural synthesis
N2  - "In World History as the History of Foundations, 3000 BCE to 1500 CE, Michael Borgolte investigates the origins and development of foundations from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. In his survey foundations emerge not as mere legal institutions, but rather as "total social phenomena" which touch upon manifold aspects, including politics, the economy, art and religion of the cultures in which they emerged. Cross-cultural in its approach and the result of decades of research, this work represents by far the most comprehensive account of the history of foundations that has hitherto been published"--
ER  -