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000687934 1001_ $$aTerpstra, Nicholas.
000687934 24510 $$aCultures of charity$$h[electronic resource] :$$bwomen, politics, and the reform of poor relief in Renaissance Italy /$$cNicholas Terpstra.
000687934 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$cc2013.
000687934 300__ $$a1 online resource (x, 379 p.) :$$bill.
000687934 4901_ $$aI Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
000687934 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000687934 5050_ $$a1. Showing the poor a good time : gender, class, and charitable cultures. Two cultures of charity ; "Good mothers of the family" -- 2. Worthy poor, worthy rich : women's poverty and charitable institutions. The turning wheel : charitable institutions and life cycle poverty ; The critical decade ; Nights and days at the opera -- 3. Tightening control : the narrowing politics of charity. Making it work ; People versus patricians : civil society and controlling charity -- 4. Meeting the bottom line : alms, taxes, work and legacies. Begging for beggars : keeping the opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti afloat ; Taxation by other means ; Making a workhouse ; Deeper in debt and richer all the time : building a legacy -- 5. The wheel keeps turning : moving beyond the opera. Enclosing the circle : shelters and the reform of poor women ; Credit where credit was due : investing in marriage ; Beyond charity : mutual assistance and the working poor -- 6. Baroque piety and the qualità of mercy. Bringing discipline to practical charity ; The aesthetics of poverty and the qualità of mercy.
000687934 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000687934 520__ $$aRenaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women's shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new plans focused on features of women's poverty like illegitimate births, hunger, unemployment, and domestic violence. Signal features of the reforms, from forced labor to new instruments of saving and lending, were devised specifically to help young women get a start in life. Cultures of Charity is the first book to see women's poverty as the key factor driving changes to poor relief. These changes generated intense political debates as proponents of republican democracy challenged more elitist and authoritarian forms of government emerging at the time. Should taxes fund poor relief? Could forced labor help build local industry? Focusing on Bologna, Terpstra looks at how these fights around politics and gender generated pioneering forms of poor relief, including early examples of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.
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000687934 650_0 $$aCharities$$zItaly$$zBologna$$xHistory.
000687934 650_0 $$aPoor$$zItaly$$zBologna$$xHistory.
000687934 650_0 $$aWomen$$zItaly$$zBologna$$xHistory.
000687934 651_0 $$aBologna (Italy)$$xSocial conditions.
000687934 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aTerpstra, Nicholas.$$tCultures of charity.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2013$$z9780674067097$$w(DLC) 2012018083$$w(OCoLC)792887419
000687934 830_0 $$aI Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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