Social Welfare in Pre-industrial England The Old Poor Law Tradition

Crossing period boundaries separating late medieval, early modern, and long eighteenth-century England, Paul A. Fideler offers a coherent overview of parish-centered social welfare from its medieval roots, through its institutionalisation in the Elizabethan Poor Law, to its demise in the early years of the Industrial Revolution.The study:- Incorporates the latest scholarship- Weaves together social, economic, demographic, medical, political, religious and ideological history- Offers fresh treatments of the contextual importance of Christian moral theology in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, humanist and protestant thought in the sixteenth century and neo-Stoic benevolence and political arithmetic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries- Explores two competing approaches to social welfare: societas (voluntary, rooted in custom and tradition) and civitas (mandatory, embedded in policy and law)- Concludes with a detailed examination of the first histories of social welfare in England undertaken in the late eighteenth century>

Info autore

PAUL A. FIDELER is Professor of History and Humanities at Lesley University, USA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul A. Fideler, Paul A Fideler
• Editore: Macmillan
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 05.12.2005
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali
• EAN: 9780333688953
• ISBN: 978-0-333-68895-3
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Serie: Social History in Perspective; Social History in Perspective
• Categorie: B; History; Social History; England;history;law;perception;poverty