Do good unto all: Charity and poor relief across Christian Europe, 1400-1800 (Studies in Early Modern European History) - Hardcover

 
9781526162472: Do good unto all: Charity and poor relief across Christian Europe, 1400-1800 (Studies in Early Modern European History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1526162474 ISBN 13: 9781526162472
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

For nearly two millennia, Christians have tried to make sense of the Bible's reminder that the poor are 'always among us'. This volume explores the diverse range of ideas, institutions, and experiences early modern Europeans brought to bear in response to this biblical adage. Do good unto all traces the concept and practice of charity across the four major early modern Christian confessions - Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist - and over a wide range of geographical areas from Scotland to Switzerland and the Spanish Atlantic World. By bringing such a diverse set of localised studies into concert for the first time, this volume exposes the many intersections and tensions that arose between and within communities as they attempted to translate the ideal of charity into practice. This comparative approach shifts the focus from binary definitions of 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor or 'Catholic' and 'Protestant'. Instead, Do good unto all charts a new course for the study of charity beyond institutional poor relief, where the matrix of individual ideas and experiences can be fully appreciated.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Timothy G. Fehler is Professor of Early Modern History at Furman University

Jared B. Thomley is an independent researcher, and received his PhD from the University of Aberdeen

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For nearly two millennia, Christians have tried to make sense of the Bible’s reminder that the poor are ‘always among us’. This volume explores the diverse range of ideas, institutions, and experiences early modern Europeans brought to bear in response to this biblical adage.

Do good unto all traces the concept and practice of charity across the four major early modern Christian confessions – Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist – and over a wide range of geographical areas from Scotland to Switzerland to the Spanish Atlantic World. By bringing such a diverse set of localised studies into concert for the first time, the volume’s fresh approaches expose the many intersections and tensions between and within communities as they attempted to translate the ideal of charity into practice. This comparative study moves beyond institutional poor relief and its attendant binaries of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor or ‘Catholic’ and ‘Protestant’. Instead, Do good unto all charts a new course for the study of charity, one that leads us to more fully appreciate the competing ideas about and range of definitions of charity while witnessing the experience of poor relief across the spectrum from benefactors and administrators to the poor themselves.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526162474
ISBN 13 
9781526162472
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
270
Herausgeber
Fehler Timothy G., Thomley Jared B.
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