Cultures of Charity : Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy / Nicholas Terpstra.
Terpstra, Nicholas, author.
2013
HV295.B6
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Title Cultures of Charity : Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy / Nicholas Terpstra.
Author Terpstra, Nicholas, author.
ISBN 9780674067929
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067929
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 3 halftones, 13 line illustrations, 4 tables
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674067929 doi
Call Number HV295.B6
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.5/57094541109031
Summary Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women's shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new plans focused on features of women's poverty like illegitimate births, hunger, unemployment, and domestic violence. Signal features of the reforms, from forced labor to new instruments of saving and lending, were devised specifically to help young women get a start in life. Cultures of Charity is the first book to see women's poverty as the key factor driving changes to poor relief. These changes generated intense political debates as proponents of republican democracy challenged more elitist and authoritarian forms of government emerging at the time. Should taxes fund poor relief? Could forced labor help build local industry? Focusing on Bologna, Terpstra looks at how these fights around politics and gender generated pioneering forms of poor relief, including early examples of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.
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Series I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
In E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Figures and Tables
Introduction
Chapter 1: Showing the Poor a Good Time
Chapter 2: Worthy Poor, Worthy Rich
Chapter 3: Tightening Control
Chapter 4: Meeting the Bottom Line
Chapter 5: The Wheel Keeps Turning
Chapter 6: Baroque Piety and the Qualità of Mercy
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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