Philanthropy in England, 1480-1660 : a study of the changing pattern of English social aspirations
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Philanthropy in England, 1480-1660 : a study of the changing pattern of English social aspirations
（Routledge reissues）
Routledge, 2006
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Philanthropy in England, 1480-1660 : vol I: a study of the changing pattern of English social aspirations
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Reprint. Originally published: London : George Allen & Unwin, 1959
First in a two-volume set
Includes index
ISBN for set with "The charities of London, 1480-1660 : the aspirations and the achievements of the urban society": 0415401933, 9780415401937
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内容説明
This study documents a momentous shift which occurred in men's aspirations for their society in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The author has examined gifts and bequests left for charitable causes over a period of nearly two centuries. in ten English counties, in order to assess the changing pattern of social aspirations and observe the different 'velocities of change' among the several social classes.
Professor Jordan examines the problem of poverty in the early modern world and discusses the various measures taken by the Tudors and Stuarts to deal with the needs of the poor. He concludes that poverty was principally relieved by an immense outpouring of charitable wealth. This wealth flowed principally from an urban aristocracy determined not only to care for the hopelessly destitute but so to enlarge the 'area of opportunity' so that poverty could be prevented. At the same time, the Elizabethan law of charitable uses marshalled this generous wealth into effective agencies. The study closes with a full assessment of the noble achievements of the period: the founding of a widespread and effective system of education, the establishment of almshouses in all parts of England, and extraordinairy adn fertile experiments with the several agencies of social rehabilitation.
The author records in this voluma a great and enduring historical achievement; he records as well the triumph of the secular preoccupations of mankind.
This book was first published in 1959.
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