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This document appears to be a scholarly article about private religious foundations in the Byzantine Empire. It discusses the origins of such foundations in the later Roman Empire, their regulation under Justinian and his predecessors, evidence of them from Egyptian papyri, and their existence from 565-1025 AD. It also covers the crisis of these foundations, their role in the age of the "charistike," a reform movement against the charistike, and their place in the last centuries of the Byzantine Empire. The

Author

Andrei Dumitrescu

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