Thomas Max Safley

Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the complex interrelationship between charity, confession, and capital in the orphanages of Augsburg, one of early modern Europe's great manufacturing and mercantile centers. The product of monumental, original research, if offers a thorough-going revision of current historical scholarship on poor relief, social discipline, organization building, and emergent capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Central European Hi Nr.8
• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780391039834
• ISBN-10: 0391039830
• Artikelnr.: 21652848

Autorenporträt

Thomas Max Safley teaches Early Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Associate Professor. He has written extensively on the legal, social, and economic history of the early modern family, including Let No Man Put Asunder: The Control of Marriage in the German Southwest, 1550-1600 (1984), and he is co-editor of The Workplace Before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500-1800 (1993).