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Do good unto all : Charity and poor relief across Christian Europe, 1400-1800 /

This volume explores the ideas, institutions, and experiences that shaped Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist charity in early modern Europe.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thomley, Jared B. (Editor ), Fehler, Timothy G. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Beyond poor relief: defining, implementing,and experiencing charity
  • Part I: Defining charity
  • Chapter 1: Domingo de Soto and itinerantpoverty: a mobile concept
  • Chapter 2: No greater act of mercy: 'Cellites' and thears moriendi in the fifteenth century
  • Chapter 3: Charity's assurance: exhortation andelection in seventeenth-century Scotland
  • Part II: Implementing charity
  • Chapter 4: Legislation and poor relief: Bugenhagenand the Reformation in Braunschweig
  • Chapter 5: 'Under the guise of Christian generosity':Anabaptist responses to poverty inReformed Zurich, 1600-1650
  • Chapter 6: Theatrical charity in the earlymodern Spanish world
  • Chapter 7: 'Especially unto those of the householdof faith': Menso Alting, discipline, andcommunity in Emden's social welfare
  • Part III: Experiencing charity
  • Chapter 8: Household and hospital: negotiatingsocial welfare and social disciplinein Reformation Geneva
  • Chapter 9: The Marillac family as charitable benefactors:family strategy and the rhetoric of poor reliefin sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France*
  • Chapter 10: The pilgrim as temporary pauper: thechanging landscape of hospitality onthe Camino de Santiago, 1550-1750
  • Chapter 11: Prostitution, repentance, and civicwelfare in Renaissance Florence
  • Index