ISBN-13: 9780415178440 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 320 str.
ISBN-13: 9780415178440 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 320 str.
The role of religion was of paramount importance in the change of attitudes and approaches to health care and charity which took place in the centuries following the Council of Trent. This book examines the effects of counter-reformation on health care and poor relief in Southern Catholic Europe in the period between 1540 and 1700. As well as an introduction discussing issues of the nature of the Catholic or counter-reformation and the welfare provisions of the period, this text sets the period in its social, economic, religious and ideological context.