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

Nicholas Terpstra 2013 © The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Series
  • Villa I Tatti
ISBN(s)
  • 9780674067929 (ebook)
  • 9780674067097 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 1400-1800
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Figures and Tables (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1. Showing the Poor a Good Time: Gender, Class, and Charitable Cultures (page 19)
    • Two Cultures of Charity (page 21)
    • "Good Mothers of the Family" (page 42)
  • 2. Worthy Poor, Worthy Rich: Women's Poverty and Charitable Institutions (page 55)
    • The Turning Wheel: Charitable Institutions and Life Cycle Poverty (page 62)
    • The Critical Decade (page 78)
    • Nights and Days at the Opera (page 85)
  • 3. Tightening Control: The Narrowing Politics of Charity (page 99)
    • Making It Work (page 104)
    • People versus Patricians: Civil Society and Controlling Charity (page 119)
  • 4. Meeting the Bottom Line: Alms, Taxes, Work, and Legacies (page 138)
    • Begging for Beggars: Keeping the Opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti Afloat (page 142)
    • Taxation by Other Means (page 153)
    • Making a Workhouse (page 166)
    • Deeper in Debt and Richer all the Time: Building a Legacy (page 183)
  • 5. The Wheel Keeps Turning: Moving Beyond the Opera (page 195)
    • Enclosing the Circle: Shelters and the Reform of Poor Women (page 199)
    • Credit Where Credit Was Due: Investing in Marriage (page 217)
    • Beyond Charity: Mutual Assistance and the Working Poor (page 233)
  • 6. Baroque Piety and the Qualità of Mercy (page 245)
    • Bringing Discipline to Practical Clarity (page 250)
    • The Aesthetics of Poverty and the Qualità of Mercy (page 263)
  • Notes (page 287)
  • Bibliography (page 347)
  • Acknowledgments (page 367)
  • Index (page 371)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JMH 86.4 (Dec. 2014): 942-944 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678743
RQ 66.4 (Winter 2013): 1414-1415 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675139
COM 45 (2014): 339-340 https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comitatus/v045/45.pescatori.html
JSocH 48.3 (Spring 2015): 749-751 https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v048/48.3.baker.html
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