what help was their for the poor (in their parish) in the middle ages?
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In the Middle Ages, believe it or not, "Poor" was not a clearly defined concept. The fuedal system meant that [by and large] everyone had a useful role in society. It is not until people were redundent that poverty became an issue.\n\nSome answers seem to think the Middle Ages and The Middle of the second Millenium are the same thing. They are not. The Middle Ages is the period in Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire about 750ad to about 1500ad The Middle Ages had finished by 1600
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Find a way to help someone in need.
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Right here is one thing you do for community service.  Go to www.thehungersite.com\n\nIt is a totally free way to help.  The advertisers on the site send money to feed the poor.\n\n***Tell everyone you know about this!**
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Seems to me Christians were not allowed to lend money at interest during the Middle Ages. \n\nGoogle search:  moneylender medieval\n\nhttp://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/Community/exe/history/medievaljew.htm\n\nIt appears that at least sometimes a Jew in Exeter (England) could contract with the king to be a (money collector?); in turn, he belonged to the king, who in turn protected him.  He was able to build houses and hold lands, but it sounds as though his employment opportunities were seriously limited to "what the law of (the Christian's) church forbade the Christian."
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Almost Every new poster  starts out asking that, and the answers are quite mean usually. I'm poor too and know it's hard. Churches have helped me best when I was desperate. Good Luck. I'll pray for you okay buddy?
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These websites should help you.  They discuss many aspects of the middle ages, including all kinds of information on castles, manors, and homes of medieval times.\n\nI hope this helps.
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Greed. that is why the catholic church will not share their wealth with poor nations. They have enough money to helpo and feed the poor, but they choose to keep it for themselves.
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MEDIEVAL ECONOMICS\n\nThe people of the former Roman province of Britain in the 5th and 6th Centuries had to make their living in difficult circumstances. Around them lay the ruins of imperial grandeur. In the cities, public buildings and private houses were in decay; on the frontiers, the forts were abandoned; in the country, the aristocratic villas were crumbling. This was not just a matter of physical decline or political change because as the Roman state was dismantled, so roads, bridges and ports were neglected, the coinage disappeared, government spending ceased and the elite of the armed forces and civil administration were no longer employing labor or consuming goods on a large scale. Trade dwindled and the former mass-producing industries collapsed. The native British population faced major upheavals in their way of life, including unemployment and a breakdown in law and order. The German immigrants from across the North Sea, who had been attracted by the opulence of the province, had to adapt to a changing society. \n\nWithout trade, easy communications or imperial government, the cities could not provide a living for a large population and almost everyone lived in the countryside. Here again they had no alternative but to adapt to a restricted economy. Apart from problems of security there would be no more large surpluses to be sold in the towns. The villas were taken over by succeeding generations of native British or Anglo-Saxon immigrants who put up buildings of wood. In some cases the territory around the villa persisted as an estate unit and the owners obtained tribute from the local peasants. \n\nThe priority of country-dwellers lay in providing for their own subsistence. In southern and eastern England they lived in timber houses often measuring 15 by 30 feet, associated with smaller structures with sunken floors built for storage, craft work (such as weaving) and accomodations for servants and dependants. \n\nEven in the reduced circumstances of the post-Roman recession, households could not meet all of their consumption requirements from their own resources. They wove their own cloth and no doubt built their own houses and made implements from wood. But they needed iron weapons and farming tools and women wore ornate jewelry manufactured from copper alloy. These could only be supplied by specialists with crfating skills and raw materials so some surpluses from the land were exchanged. \n\nA society with an emphasis on production for use and which had limited facilities for exchange was not likely to be deeply stratified. Elites collected foodstuffs from the peasants in some form but they had limited ways of disposing of goods once they satisfied their followers. While the people of 5th and 6th Century England adapted successfully to their post-imperial world, this was still a traumatic process. The losses of population far outweighed the gains from migration partly as a result of plague epidemics in the 6th Century, but more as uncertainties and the lack of economic opportunity discouraged marriage and child-rearing. We can only make an educated guess at the overall figures but the sparsity of settlements, the abandonment of towns and the retreat of cultivation could point to at least halving the population. Thus numbers fell from a peak of perhaps 5 million in the 2nd Century to less than 2 million by 600 AD.
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People had sense and they worked. The ones that had would help the ones that didn't. There were soup kitchens also.
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Call your department of public aid...often they offer assistance for low income individuals/ families
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Poverty means going without the essentials.  Some people don't have food, clothing, indoor plumbing, running water, heat, reliable transportation, etc.
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salvation army i think
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You can help by referring them to charitable institutions.
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it was from St. Antonio de Padova, the patron saint of children, poor people, prisoners, glass blowers, people who lost something and barren women.. and from St. Antonio Abate, the patron saint of bakers, animals, and grocers..
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Some really need help. There are places that do help. Some use it as a way to make a living. Did you know they have a school to teach you how to be a begger or hobo. During the day they ask for money, at night they go home to their Mansions and fine cars and families.
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War,hungry people,counties that do not have that much money,poor people...
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How about trading places with Robin Hood?  You could change it up by having the area kingdoms share their wealth and Robin Hood heading up the social program and giving out the money.  I guess he could be a social worker!  :)