Social welfare in pre-industrial England : the old poor law tradition
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Social welfare in pre-industrial England : the old poor law tradition
(Social history in perspective)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-254) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Crossing period boundaries separating late medieval, early modern, and long eighteenth-century England, Paul A. Fideler offers a coherent overview of parish-centered social welfare from its medieval roots, through its institutionalisation in the Elizabethan Poor Law, to its demise in the early years of the Industrial Revolution.
The study:
- incorporates the latest scholarship
- weaves together social, economic, demographic, medical, political, religious and ideological history
- offers fresh treatments of the contextual importance of Christian moral theology in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, humanist and protestant thought in the sixteenth century and neo-Stoic benevolence and political arithmetic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- explores two competing approaches to social welfare: societas (voluntary, rooted in custom and tradition) and civitas (mandatory, embedded in policy and law)
- concludes with a detailed examination of the first histories of social welfare in England undertaken in the late eighteenth century.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- The Medieval Societas Christiana (c. 1350-1450).- From God's Poor to Man's (c. 1450-1540).- Parish, Town, and Poor Law (c. 1540-1610).- Implementation (c. 1610-1690).- Settlement, Workhouses, and New Industry (c. 1690-1780).- Poverty, Policy, and History (c. 1780-1810).- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.
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