[PDF] Poverty And Deviance In Early Modern Europe eBook

Author : Robert Jütte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 1994-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521423229

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This study provides an accessible and authoritative account of poverty and deviance during the early modern period, informed by those perspectives on the role of the poor themselves in the provision of welfare services characteristic of much recent social history. Robert Jütte shows how the notions of poverty and social deviance that preoccupied much contemporary thought saw their ultimate fruition in the systematic programmes for social welfare that emerged during the nineteenth century. Contrary to the once-traditional historical emphasis on the ameliorative role of individual reformers, Professor Jütte's account looks much more closely at the poor themselves, and the complex network of social and communal relationships they inhabited. He examines the lives not only of poor relief recipients but of the vast number of destitute individuals who had to find other means to stay alive, and how these people shaped their own patterns of survival within given communities.

Author : David Hitchcock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1351370987

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The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450–1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. The essays chart critical new directions in poverty scholarship and connect poverty to the environment, debt and downward social mobility, material culture, empires, informal economies, disability, veterancy, and more. The volume contributes to the understanding of societal transformations across the early modern period, and places poverty and the poor at the centre of these transformations. It also argues for a wider definition of poverty in history which accounts for much more than economic and social circumstance and provides both analytically critical overviews and detailed case studies. By exploring poverty and the poor across early modern Europe, this study is essential reading for students and researchers of early modern society, economic history, state formation and empire, cultural representation, and mobility.

Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0415409578

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Covers the events as Europe transformed during the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.

Author : Henry Kamen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 113472537X

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Drawing together common features of society from a range of different contexts throughout Europe, from Italy and Spain to Poland and Russia, Early Modern European Society surveys the sweeping changes affecting Europe from the end of the fifteenth century to the early decades of the eighteenth century. Henry Kamen includes discussion on: European identities, frontiers and language leisure, work and migration religion, ritual and witchcraft the aristocracy, the bourgeoisie and the poor gender roles social discipline and absolutism.

Author : Michael Halvorson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754661535

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Numerous historical studies use the term community' to express or comment on social relationships within geographic, religious, political, social, or literary settings, yet this volume is the first systematic attempt to collect together important examples of this varied work in order to draw comparisons and conclusions about the definition of community across early modern Europe. The chapters demonstrate the complex and changeable nature of community in an era more often characterized as a time of stark certainties and inflexibility. As a result, the volume contributes a vital resource to the ongoing efforts of scholars to understand the creation and perpetuation of communities and the significance of community definition for early modern Europeans.

Author : Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107031060

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Thoroughly updated best-selling textbook with new learning features. This acclaimed textbook has unmatched breadth of coverage and a global perspective.

Author : Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1786949830

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The reputed wealth and benevolence of the Portuguese Jews of early modern Amsterdam attracted many impoverished people to the city, both ex-Conversos from the Iberian peninsula and Jews from many other countries. In describing the consequences of that migration in terms of demography, admission policy, charitable institutions—public and private—philanthropy and daily life, and the dynamics of the relationship between the rich and the poor, Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld adds a nuanced new dimension to the understanding of Jewish life in the early modern period.

Author : Andreas Gestrich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1441163603

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This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in which national and regional welfare systems operated. By foregrounding the particular experiences and strategies of the sick poor, this volume helps to establish and understand the central sentiments of the relief system and the core experiences of those under its care. What emerges is a demonstration that how a relief system treated its sick poor and how those sick poor were able to navigate the system tells us more about welfare history than analysis of any other group.