Europe?s Welfare Traditions Since 1500, Volume 1
1500-1700
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 27 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350580046
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 232x154x18 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 bw illus 800
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Short description:
A comprehensive examination of welfare institutions and commitments in and across Europe from 1500 to 1700.
MoreLong description:
Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and with dignity); how to give support without undermining autonomy (and motivation); and how to balance private and public spheres of action and responsibility.
Across two authoritative volumes, Adams reveals how social welfare administrators, critics, and improvers have engaged in a constant exchange of models and experience locally and across Europe. The narrative begins with the founding of the Casa da Misericordia of Lisbon in 1498, a model replicated throughout Portugal and its empire, and ends with the relaunch of a social agenda for the European Union at the meeting of the Council of Europe in Lisbon in 2000.
Volume 1, which focuses on the period from 1500 to 1700, discusses the concepts of 'welfare' and 'tradition'. It looks at how 16th-century humanists joined with merchants and lawyers to renew traditional charity in distinctly modern forms, and how the discipline of religious reform affected the exercise of political authority and the promotion of economic productivity.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part 1 - Threshold of Modernity (to 1540)
1. Organizing Mercy in Southern Europe
2. Urban Charity and Humanism
3. Blueprints for Relief to the Deserving
4. The Passion for Reformation
Part 2 - Discipline (1540 - 1700)
5. Charity in the Cauldron of Religious Conflict
6. Confronting Misery and War in France
7. The Paris Hi??1?2pital Gi??1?2ni??1?2ral and its Offshoots
8. Elizabeth 43: The Making of the Old English Poor Law
9. Foundlings, Orphans, and Apprentices
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
