Sandra Cavallo

Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy

Benefactors and Their Motives in Turin, 1541 1789
Herausgeber: Jones, Colin; Rosenberg, Charles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first thorough study of charity, and medical and poor relief, in post-Renaissance Italy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9780521460910
• ISBN-10: 0521460913
• Artikelnr.: 22757784

Inhaltsangabe

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.