Cultures of Charity Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy

Name: Cultures of Charity Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 9780674067097

ISBN-10: 0674067096

ISBN-13: 9780674067097

Edition: 2013

Authors: Nicholas. Terpstra

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Renaissance 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…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


Introduction



Showing the Poor a Good Time: Gender, Class, and Charitable Cultures


Two Cultures of Charity


"Good Mothers of the Family"



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



Tightening Control: The Narrowing Politics of Charity


Making It Work


People versus Patricians: Civil Society and Controlling Charity



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



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



Baroque Piety and the Qualitï¿½ of Mercy


Bringing Discipline to Practical Charity


The Aesthetics of Poverty and the Qualitï¿½ of Mercy


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index