TY  - BOOK
AU  - Safley,Thomas Max
TI  - The reformation of charity: the secular and the religious in early modern poor relief 
T2  - Studies in Central European histories
SN  - 1423714482
AV  - HV238 .R44 2003eb
U1  - 362.5/58/09409031 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill Academic Publishers
KW  - Charities
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Poor
KW  - Services for
KW  - Œuvres de bienfaisance
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Aide sociale
KW  - Pauvres
KW  - Services
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Poverty & Homelessness
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Liefdadigheid
KW  - gtt
KW  - Armenzorg
KW  - Reformatie
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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
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