The reformation of charity: the secular and the religious in early modern poor relief
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston Brill Academic Publishers 2003
Schriftenreihe:Studies in Central European histories
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Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- The poverty of Christ -- Charity and the Reformation in Italy: the case of Treviso -- "Con buona affetione": confraternities, charity, and the poor in early cinquecento Florence -- Welfare, Reformation, and death at Memmingen -- Poor relief and health care provision in south-German Catholic cities during the sixteenth century -- Refashioning poor relief in early modern Emden -- Calvinism and poor relief in Reformation Holland -- Welfare reform in Frisian towns: between humanist theory, pious imperatives, and government policy -- Mennonites and sectarian poor relief in golden-age Amsterdam -- Curing body and soul: health care in early modern Orange -- Motivations for charity in early modern France -- Conclusion -- Index
This work shows that early modern Europe witnessed changes in the social, political, and ecclesiastical structures supporting poor relief, but notions that sharp fault lines divide rationalized, secular poor relief from morally and spiritually motivated ecclesiastical charity need rethinking
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 206 p.)
ISBN:0391042114
1423714482
9047400097
9780391042117
9781423714484
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