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vd66vx04m43	Allison Edgren	The Needy, the "Lazy," and the "Lying": Beggars and Begging in Late Medieval Germany	1904		.txt	text/plain	347	13	39	These studies nuance the negative view of beggars suggested by an isolated reading of the first begging laws, revealing instead a complicated interplay between local events, rising suspicions of begging, and continued impulses toward charity. As most of the early German begging legislation sought to regulate which people could beg and where they could do so, this section examines how perceptions of beggars were reflected spatially in attempts to regulate permissible begging locations, and then considers how and why medieval donors discriminated among the poor.	cache/vd66vx04m43.txt	txt/vd66vx04m43.txt