Cultures of Care
Domestic Welfare, Discipline and the Church of Scotland, c. 1600?1689
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 23 May 2020
- ISBN 9789004420977
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages210 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 455 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In Cultures of Care, Chris R. Langley explores the relationship between charity, self-help and the discipline of the early modern Church of Scotland.
MoreLong description:
Cultures of Care: Domestic Welfare, Discipline and the Church of Scotland, c. 1600?1689 explores voluntary networks of charity and their interaction with the Reformed Church of Scotland. Whereas most previous histories have assessed the growth of institutional charity, this book contends that the Reformed Church of Scotland was heavily reliant on informal, domestic modes of self-help throughout the seventeenth century.
The existence and widespread acceptance of informal care dramatically changes our understanding of the impact of the Calvinist Reformation. Local ecclesiastical and secular leaders did not have a concerted policy to affect or ameliorate informal networks of care. Reformed authorities were members of these networks, as well as agents to police them, collapsing distinctions between informal and formal modes of Calvinist authority.
?The strengths of Langley?s work lie in its readability. The prose is engaging and the various specific examples allow for connection with the individuals living in the distant past. He takes a broad concept??care??and makes it more digestible.?
Charlotte Holmes, in: Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 100, No. 2 (August, 2021), pp. 287?288.
?This book provides a significant step forward in early modern Scottish social history. However it also has important implications for the history of the Reformed Kirk in demonstrating that kirk sessions did not seek to marginalise, downgrade, or control informal care.?
John McCallum, Nottingham Trent University. In: Scottish Church History, Vol. 50, No. 2 (2021), pp. 171?173.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
1 Poor Relief
2 Non
-Institutional Charity, Domesticity and Reformed Intervention
3 Method and Sources
4 Charity and the Kirk Session
1 Kindness and the Parish
1 Carers and Care Acts
2 Petitioning
2 Childcare
1 Fosterage and Wet Nursing
2 Childcare and Sermons
3 Illegitimacy
1 Parish Networks
2 Fostering Bastards
3 Negligence and Infanticide
4 Illness
1 Neighbourly and Kin Assistance
2 Disciplinary Consequences
3 Charming
5 Disability
1 Attitudes towards Disability
2 Parish Stability
6 Death
1 Providing Deathbed Care
2 Clerics and Carers
3 Post
-Mortem Practices
Conclusion
1 Informality
2 Social Capital
Bibliography
Index
