|
Darrera modificació: 2019-01-20
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Pullan, Brian, Poverty and Charity (Europe, Italy, Venice, 1400–1700), Aldershot, Variorum (Collected studies series, 459), 1994, viii + 339 pp.
- Resum
- The essays in this collection, first published over a thirty-year period, attempt to show how Roman Catholic communities in early modern Europe (particularly the great cities of Italy, and Venice above all) treated poor people and organized poor relief. Some essays discuss the principal groupings of poor, from the genteel, 'shamefaced' poor to orphans and foundlings, and from working folk to idle rogues. Others examine the motives and functions of the principal types of organization that dealt with poor people, either incidentally or as their main concern: religious brotherhoods, hospitals, conservatories, public loan banks, houses for the conversion of Jews and Muslims to Christianity. One main argument is that, although Catholics and Protestants shared a dislike and fear of vagrancy and reacted in similar ways to economic crises, Catholic charity was in many respects quite different from Protestant.
Contents:
* Catholics and the poor in early modern Europe
* The roles of the State and the town in the General Crisis of the 1590s
* Orphans and foundlings in early modern Europe
* Poveri, mendicanti e vagabondi (secoli XIV-XVII)
* 'Support and Redeem': charity and poor relief in Italian cities from the 14th to the 17th century
* 'Difettosi, impotenti, inabili': caring for the disabled in early modern Italian cities
* Plague and perceptions of the poor in early modern Italy
* Wage-earners and the Venetian economy, 1550-1630
* Religious brotherhoods in Venice
* Houses in the service of the poor in the Venetian Republic
* The conversion of the Jews: the style of Italy
* The Scuole Grandi of Venice: some further thoughts
- Matèries
- Història
Societat
Hospitals
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
 .
|