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Cultures of charity: women, politics, and the reform of poor relief in Renaissance Italy
Nicholas Terpstra
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Frontmatter
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List of Figures and Tables (page ix)
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Introduction (page 1)
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1. Showing the Poor a Good Time: Gender, Class, and Charitable Cultures (page 19)
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Two Cultures of Charity (page 21)
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"Good Mothers of the Family" (page 42)
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2. Worthy Poor, Worthy Rich: Women's Poverty and Charitable Institutions (page 55)
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The Turning Wheel: Charitable Institutions and Life Cycle Poverty (page 62)
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The Critical Decade (page 78)
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Nights and Days at the Opera (page 85)
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3. Tightening Control: The Narrowing Politics of Charity (page 99)
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Making It Work (page 104)
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People versus Patricians: Civil Society and Controlling Charity (page 119)
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4. Meeting the Bottom Line: Alms, Taxes, Work, and Legacies (page 138)
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Begging for Beggars: Keeping the Opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti Afloat (page 142)
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Taxation by Other Means (page 153)
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Making a Workhouse (page 166)
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Deeper in Debt and Richer all the Time: Building a Legacy (page 183)
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5. The Wheel Keeps Turning: Moving Beyond the Opera (page 195)
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Enclosing the Circle: Shelters and the Reform of Poor Women (page 199)
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Credit Where Credit Was Due: Investing in Marriage (page 217)
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Beyond Charity: Mutual Assistance and the Working Poor (page 233)
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6. Baroque Piety and the Qualità of Mercy (page 245)
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Bringing Discipline to Practical Clarity (page 250)
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The Aesthetics of Poverty and the Qualità of Mercy (page 263)
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Notes (page 287)
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Bibliography (page 347)
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Acknowledgments (page 367)
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Index (page 371)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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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Published: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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