Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy - Benefactors and Their Motives in Turin, 1541-1789

Klappentext The first thorough study of charity, and medical and poor relief, in post-Renaissance Italy. Zusammenfassung This is the first thorough study of charity! and medical and poor relief! in post-Renaissance Italy. It departs from current interpretations by emphasising the various circumstances that motivated individual men and women to become involved in charity. It also challenges the assumption that continental welfare provision was characterised by the institutional confinement of the poor and sick. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Sixteenth-century municipal plans for poor relief; 2. Civic charity in the age of state formation; 3. Motivations for charity; 4 Charity and gender; 5. Hospitals and poor relief in the age of absolutism; 6. The state system of relief; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Sandra Cavallo, Sandra (University of Exeter) Cavallo
• Assisted by: Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.1995
• EAN: 9780521460910
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46091-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Language Education
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education