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Preface | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Introduction | |
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Relieving Misery, Preserving Social Order | |
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Goals | |
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Limitations | |
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Sources | |
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Perspectives | |
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Reformation Initiatives for the Poor | |
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Poverty and Charity in the Middle Ages | |
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The Concept of Poverty | |
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Theology and Poverty | |
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The Exigencies of Poverty | |
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Medieval Urban Reactions to Poverty | |
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The Secularization of Charity | |
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The Church - Helper and Hinderer of the Poor | |
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Urban Realities and Reformation Ideals | |
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Humanist Contributions and Ideas | |
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Late Medieval Urban Developments | |
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The Urban Reception of the Reformation | |
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Luther's Theology and Social Welfare | |
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Reforming Responses and Roman-Radical Reactions | |
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The Evangelical Church Orders | |
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Roman Catholic Reactions | |
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Radical Evangelical Reactions | |
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Social Reform beyond Charity for the Poor | |
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Focusing on Service to the Neighbor | |
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Recasting Wealth, Poverty, and Salvation | |
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Beginning with Doctrine | |
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Sources on Poverty and Social Welfare | |
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Late Medieval Attitudes to Begging and Poverty | |
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Canon Law (post-1140) | |
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Jacques de Vitry (d. c. 1240). A Sermon Illustration and Concerning Hospitals for the Poor and Homes for the Lepers" | |
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John Hus (1371-1415). "On Charity Trusts" (1413) | |
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Johann Geiler of Kaysersberg (1445-1510), "Concerning Begging" | |
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Nuremberg Begging Order of 1478 | |
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Martin Luther's "Foreword" to Mathias Hutlin | |
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Renaissance and Reformation Perspectives | |
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Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536), "Beggar Talk" (1524) | |
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Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (c. 1480-1541), "There Should Be No Beggars among Christians" (1522) | |
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Martin Luther (1483-1546), "That Clergy Should Preach against Usury" (1540) | |
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"A Conversation concerning the Common Chest of Schwabach, Namely by Brother Heinrich, Knecht Ruprecht, Spuler, and Their Master of the Wool Cloth Trade" (1524) | |
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Social Welfare Legislation | |
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Order of the City of Wittenberg (1522) | |
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The Poor Order of Ypres (1525) | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |