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

ISBN-13: 9780521460910 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 300 str.

Sandra Cavallo; Charles Rosenberg; Colin Jones

Opis

This is the first thorough study of charity and of medical and poor relief in post-Renaissance Italy. It departs from current interpretations by putting much greater emphasis on the various circumstances that motivated individual men and women to become involved in charity, and argues that conflicts and tensions in their social and political surroundings were crucial in prompting their charitable activity and defining perceptions of the needy.

Recenzje

"This book deserves wide readership.... Cavallo's contributions are many, and she points the way for future research. She creatively relates adjusted patterns of charity and the promotion by charitable organizations..." William V. Hudon, American Historical Review

Spis treści

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.