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

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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Thomley, Jared B. (Editor), Fehler, Timothy G. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Public welfare > Europe > History.
Charities > Europe > History.
Charity > Religious aspects > Christianity > History.
Social conditions
Public welfare
Charity > Religious aspects > Christianity
Charities
Europe > Social conditions.
Europe > Conditions sociales.
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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