Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe, 1500-1700 / / edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822054903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997
• ISBN: 1-134-80860-7; 1-134-80861-5; 1-280-32084-2; 0-585-44816-7; 9786610320844; 0-203-43134-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Collana: Studies in the social history of medicine
• Altri autori (Persone): CunninghamAndrew, Dr.; GrellOle Peter
• Disciplina: 362.1/086/94209409031
• Soggetti: Poor - Medical care - Europe, Northern - History - 16th century; Charities - Europe, Northern - History - 16th century; Public welfare - Europe, Northern - History - 16th century; Poor - Medical care - Europe, Northern - History - 17th century; Charities - Europe, Northern - History - 17th century; Public welfare - Europe, Northern - History - 17th century; Reformation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Most of the papers included in this volume were presented at a conference entitled Health care provision and poor relief in the Baltic and North Sea Region 1500-1700, held in Odense, Denmark, in September 1994 ... two papers which were not presented at the conference have been added ..."--Pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; The Reformation and changes in welfare provision in early modern Northern Europe; The Protestant imperative of Christian care and neighbourly love; Dutch influence on urban planning, health care and poor relief: the North Sea and Baltic regions of Europe, 1567 1720; Continuity and change: attitudes towards poor relief and health care in early modern ; Antwerp; Health care provision and poor relief in early modern Hanseatic towns: Hamburg, Bremen and Lbeck; Poor relief and health care provision in sixteenth-century Denmark; The wrath of God: Christian IV and poor relief in the wake of the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' WarHealth care and poor relief in Sweden and Finland: c. 1500 1700; Health care and poor relief in Danzig (Gdansk): the sixteenth- and first half of the seventeenth century; Poor relief and health care in Scotland, 1575 1710; Hospitals, workhouses and the relief of the poor in early modern London; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in Northern Europe by drawing on research into local conditions and mapping general patterns of development.