Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe, 1500-1700 / edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.

"Most of the papers included in this volume were presented at a conference entitled Health care provision and poor relief in the Baltic and North Sea Region 1500-1700, held in Odense, Denmark, in September 1994 ... two papers which were not presented at the conference have been added ..."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Reformation and changes in welfare provision in early modern Northern Europe / Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham -- The Protestant imperative of Christian care and neighborly love / Ole Peter Grell -- Dutch influence on urban planning, health care, and poor relief : the North Sea and Baltic regions of Europe, 1567-1720 / Jonathan I. Israel -- Continuity and change : attitudes towards poor relief and health care in early modern Antwerp / Hugo Soly -- Health care provision and poor relief in early modern Hanseatic towns : Hamburg, Bremen, and Lübeck / Robert Jütte -- Poor relief and health care provision in sixteenth century Denmark / Thomas Riis -- The wrath of God : Christian IV and poor relief in the wake of the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War / E. Ladewig Petersen -- Health care and poor relief in Sweden and Finland : c. 1500-1700 / E.I. Kouri -- Health care and poor relief in Danzig (Gdansk) : the sixteenth- and first half of the seventeenth century / Maria Bogucka --Poor relief and health care in Scotland, 1575-1710 / Rosalind Mitchison -- Hospitals, workhouses and the relief of the poor in early modern London / Paul Slack.

This book provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in Northern Europe by drawing on research into local conditions and mapping general patterns of development.

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