Fehler / Unknown / Thomley Do good unto all

Charity and poor relief across Christian Europe, 1400-1800
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6248-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Early Modern European History

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Fehler, Timothy G.

Thomley, Jared B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Beyond poor relief: defining, implementing, and experiencing charity – Timothy G. Fehler and Jared B. Thomley

Part I Defining charity
1 Domingo de Soto and itinerant poverty: a mobile concept – Beatriz E. Salamanca
2 No greater act of mercy: ‘Cellites’ and the ars moriendi in the fifteenth century – Abigail J. Hartman
3 Charity’s assurance: exhortation and election in seventeenth-century Scotland – Jared B. Thomley

Part II Implementing charity
4 Legislation and poor relief: Bugenhagen and the Reformation in Braunschweig – Esther Chung-Kim
5 ‘Under the guise of Christian generosity’: Anabaptist responses to poverty in Reformed Zurich, 1600-1650 – David Y. Neufeld
6 Theatrical charity in the early modern Spanish world – Rachael Ball
7 ‘Especially unto those of the household of faith’: Menso Alting, discipline, and community in Emden’s social welfare – Timothy G. Fehler

Part III Experiencing charity
8 Household and hospital: negotiating social welfare and social discipline in Reformation Geneva – Kristen C. Howard
9 The Marillac family as charitable benefactors: family strategy and the rhetoric of poor relief in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France – Edward J. Gray
10 The pilgrim as temporary pauper: the changing landscape of hospitality on the Camino de Santiago, 1550–1750 – Elizabeth Tingle
11 Prostitution, repentance, and civic welfare in Renaissance Florence – Gillian Jack

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy G. Fehler is Professor of Early Modern History at Furman University

Jared B. Thomley is an independent researcher, and received his PhD from the University of Aberdeen