[Sca-cooks] Re: poor widow

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> On a slightly different tangent, I was surprised to find that 
> there was a system set up in the guilds to take care of widows. 
> One of the streets I saw, I think in Hamburg, was a series of 
> houses that were used for the widows of a certain type of guild. I 
> kept meaning to go back and get more information on it because I 
> think that was the pre-cursor for social security ~grin~. Has 
> anyone else heard of this? I always thought that widows were left 
> to fend for themselves until this tour. 

There are a number of different setups involving guilds and 'almshouses' 
(that's where an older person could get a 'job' where you got your house 
and board for free in exchange for praying for the founder of the 
house(s) ).

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