Theodore of Stoudios

In addition to these two sources, several letters of the ninth-century monastic leader Theodore of Stoudios offer important details on the size of provincial orphanages. Finally, the thirteenth-century letters of John Apokaukos vividly depict the difficult discipline problems that the directors of orphanages confronted in dealing with individual children in their care. ... 

Theodore of Stoudios, Ep. 211 (p. 333) refers to the early-ninth-century orphanage outside Prousa (see Chapter Five, p. 133). Typhcn Kecharitomene, chap. 5 (p. 41). describes a twelfth-century monastery for women that was always to care for two orphan girls. 

Theodore of Stoudios, Ep. Theodori Studitae Epistulae. Corpus fontium historiae byzantinae, 31. Edited by George Fatouros. Berlin and New York Walter de Gruyter, 1992. 

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