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Social Welfare in Pre-industrial England
The Old Poor Law Tradition
Social Welfare in Pre-industrial England
The Old Poor Law Tradition
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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
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.
Product details
| Published | Mar 17 2006 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9780333688953 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Series | Social History in Perspective |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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