Women And Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity 0754655539, 9780754655534

Women And Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) 0754655539, 9780754655534

Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the communi

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Women And Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) 0754655539, 9780754655534

Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the communi

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Cultures of charity: women, politics, and the reform of poor relief in Renaissance Italy 9780674067097, 9780674067929

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Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy 9780674067929

Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops,

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The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis 0812282140, 9780812282146

Who were the poor of the world's first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original es

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The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis [Reprint 2016 ed.] 9781512804102

Who were the poor of the world's first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original es

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The Patrons and Their Poor: Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany 9780812297263

Debra Kaplan offers the first extensive analysis of Jewish poor relief in early modern German cities and towns, explorin

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Daughters of Promised Land - Women in American History

being an examination of the strange history of the female sex from the beginning to the present with special attention t

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Do Good Unto All: Charity and Poor Relief Across Christian Europe, 1400-1800 1526162474, 9781526162472

This volume explores the ideas, institutions, and experiences that shaped Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist

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Poor Relief and the Church in Scotland, 1560-1650 9781474427289

An exploration of poverty and charity in early modern Scotland This book sets out the importance of charity in Scottish

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