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Cultures of charity : women, politics, and the reform of poor relief in Renaissance Italy / / Nicholas Terpstra



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Autore: Terpstra Nicholas Visualizza persona
Titolo: Cultures of charity : women, politics, and the reform of poor relief in Renaissance Italy / / Nicholas Terpstra Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, c2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 379 pages ) : illustrations (black and white)
Disciplina: 362.5/57094541109031
Soggetto topico: Charities - Italy - Bologna - History
Poor - Italy - Bologna - History
Women - Italy - Bologna - History
Soggetto geografico: Bologna (Italy) Social conditions
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Showing the Poor a Good Time -- Chapter 2: Worthy Poor, Worthy Rich -- Chapter 3: Tightening Control -- Chapter 4: Meeting the Bottom Line -- Chapter 5: The Wheel Keeps Turning -- Chapter 6: Baroque Piety and the Qualità of Mercy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 intense political debates as proponents of republican democracy challenged more elitist and authoritarian forms of government emerging at the time. Should taxes fund poor relief? Could forced labor help build local industry? Focusing on Bologna, Terpstra looks at how these fights around politics and gender generated pioneering forms of poor relief, including early examples of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.
Altri titoli varianti: Women, politics, and the reform of poor relief in Renaissance Italy
Titolo autorizzato: Cultures of charity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-07174-3
0-674-06792-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815618103321
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Serie: I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history. Villa I Tatti.