{"product_id":"do-good-unto-all-charity-and-poor-relief-across-christian-europe-1400-1800-9781526162472","title":"Do Good Unto All: Charity and Poor Relief Across","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor nearly two millennia, Christians have tried to make sense of the Bible’s reminder that the poor are ‘always among us’. This volume explores the diverse range of ideas, institutions, and experiences early modern Europeans brought to bear in response to this biblical adage.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDo good unto all \u003c\/i\u003etraces the concept and practice of charity across the four major early modern Christian confessions – Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist – and over a wide range of geographical areas from Scotland to Switzerland and the Spanish Atlantic World. By bringing such a diverse set of localised studies into concert for the first time, this volume exposes the many intersections and tensions that arose between and within communities as they attempted to translate the ideal of charity into practice. This comparative approach shifts the focus from binary definitions of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor or ‘Catholic’ and ‘Protestant’. Instead, \u003ci\u003eDo good unto all \u003c\/i\u003echarts a new course for the study of charity beyond institutional poor relief, where the matrix of individual ideas and experiences can be fully appreciated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Beyond poor relief: defining, implementing, and experiencing charity – Timothy G. Fehler and Jared B. Thomley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I Defining charity \u003cbr\u003e1 Domingo de Soto and itinerant poverty: a mobile concept – Beatriz E. Salamanca\u003cbr\u003e2 No greater act of mercy: ‘Cellites’ and the \u003ci\u003ears moriendi\u003c\/i\u003e in the fifteenth century – Abigail J. Hartman \u003cbr\u003e3 Charity’s assurance: exhortation and election in seventeenth-century Scotland – Jared B. Thomley \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II Implementing charity \u003cbr\u003e4 Legislation and poor relief: Bugenhagen and the Reformation in Braunschweig – Esther Chung-Kim \u003cbr\u003e5 ‘Under the guise of Christian generosity’: Anabaptist responses to poverty in Reformed Zurich, 1600-1650 – David Y. Neufeld \u003cbr\u003e6 Theatrical charity in the early modern Spanish world – Rachael Ball \u003cbr\u003e7 ‘Especially unto those of the household of faith’: Menso Alting, discipline, and community in Emden’s social welfare – Timothy G. Fehler \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III Experiencing charity\u003cbr\u003e8 Household and hospital: negotiating social welfare and social discipline in Reformation Geneva – Kristen C. Howard \u003cbr\u003e9 The Marillac family as charitable benefactors: family strategy and the rhetoric of poor relief in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France – Edward J. Gray \u003cbr\u003e10 The pilgrim as temporary pauper: the changing landscape of hospitality on the Camino de Santiago, 1550–1750 – Elizabeth Tingle \u003cbr\u003e11 Prostitution, repentance, and civic welfare in Renaissance Florence – Gillian Jack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041027588439,"sku":"9781526162472","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526162472.jpg?v=1750948660","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/do-good-unto-all-charity-and-poor-relief-across-christian-europe-1400-1800-9781526162472","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}