In this collection, contributors explore the experience of charity towards the poor, considering it in spiritual, intellectual, emotional, personal, social, cultural and material terms. The approach is a comparative one: across different time periods, nations, and faiths. Contributors pay attention to the way faith inflected charity in England and
In this collection, contributors explore the experience of charity towards the poor, considering it in spiritual, intellectual, emotional, personal, social, cultural and material terms. The approach is a comparative one: across different time periods, nations, and faiths. Contributors pay attention to the way faith inflected charity in England andHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Anne M. Scott is an honorary research fellow in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia. She has published a monograph, 'Piers Plowman' and the Poor (2004), and edited four volumes of collected essays, most recently with Ashgate Experiences of Poverty in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and France (2012). She is also Editor of Parergon, the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
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Experiences of charity: complex motivations in the charitable endeavour, c. 1100-c. 1650. Part 1 The Written Record: From personal charity to centralised poor relief: the evolution of responses to the poor in Paris, c. 1250-1600. From cure to care: indignation, assistance and leprosy in the high Middle Ages. More blessed to give and receive: charitable giving in 13th- and early 14th-century Exempla. A market for charitable performances? Bequests to the poor and their recipients in 15th-century Norwich wills. The forms and functions of monastic poor relief in late medieval and early 16th-century England. Changing the practice of charity in 16th-century Norwich: 'the verie nedefull and urgent reformacion'. In pursuit of charity: Nicolas Houel and his Maison de la Charite chretienne in late 16th-century Paris. 'comme bons citoyens': faith and politics in the poor relief of later 16th-century gap. From France to England: Huguenot charity in London. Part 2 The Material Record: 'An ancient box': The Queen v. Robert Wortley and John Allen (1846), or, a history of the English parochial poor box c. 1547. Hearing the poor: experiencing the sounds of charity in early modern England. Remembering the poor: signs of charity in late medieval images and texts.
Experiences of charity: complex motivations in the charitable endeavour, c. 1100-c. 1650. Part 1 The Written Record: From personal charity to centralised poor relief: the evolution of responses to the poor in Paris, c. 1250-1600. From cure to care: indignation, assistance and leprosy in the high Middle Ages. More blessed to give and receive: charitable giving in 13th- and early 14th-century Exempla. A market for charitable performances? Bequests to the poor and their recipients in 15th-century Norwich wills. The forms and functions of monastic poor relief in late medieval and early 16th-century England. Changing the practice of charity in 16th-century Norwich: 'the verie nedefull and urgent reformacion'. In pursuit of charity: Nicolas Houel and his Maison de la Charite chretienne in late 16th-century Paris. 'comme bons citoyens': faith and politics in the poor relief of later 16th-century gap. From France to England: Huguenot charity in London. Part 2 The Material Record: 'An ancient box': The Queen v. Robert Wortley and John Allen (1846), or, a history of the English parochial poor box c. 1547. Hearing the poor: experiencing the sounds of charity in early modern England. Remembering the poor: signs of charity in late medieval images and texts.
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