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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 | |