Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 7
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 9
1 THE COUNTER-REFORMATION AND WELFARE PROVISION IN SOUTHERN EUROPE......Page 10
Notes......Page 24
2 THE COUNTER-REFORMATION, MEDICAL CARE AND POOR RELIEF......Page 26
Notes......Page 41
3 COUNTER-REFORMATION, ECONOMIC DECLINE, AND THE DELAYED IMPACT OF THE MEDICAL REVOLUTION IN CATHOLIC EUROPE, 1550-1750......Page 48
Notes......Page 59
4 CHARITY AND WELFARE IN EARLY MODERN TUSCANY......Page 64
The French Disease, Companies of Divine Love and the new Orders......Page 65
Cosimo I de’ Medici and proposals for welfare reforms......Page 68
The hostel for abandoned boys......Page 71
Beggars......Page 72
Hospitals in Florence and Tuscany......Page 73
Conservatories for girls......Page 76
Charity and the Church......Page 80
Confraternities......Page 81
The new Orders and the poor......Page 82
Conclusion......Page 84
Notes......Page 86
5 'AD UNA SANCTA PERFETTION': HEALTH CARE AND POOR RELIEF IN THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE IN THE ERA OF THE COUNTER-REFORMATION......Page 94
Notes......Page 105
6 'A FOUNTAIN FOR THE THIRSTY' AND A BANK FOR THE POPE: CHARITY, CONFLICTS, AND MEDICAL CAREERS AT THE HOSPITAL OF SANTO SPIRITO IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ROME......Page 108
Medical teaching and dissections at the Santo Spirito......Page 112
Medical careers at the Santo Spirito......Page 115
Drugs for the poor at the Santo Spirito......Page 119
Greedy women and the Papal finances......Page 123
Conclusions......Page 126
Notes......Page 127
7 ‘CRADLE OF SAINTS AND USEFUL INSTITUTIONS’: HEALTH CARE AND POOR RELIEF IN THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES......Page 140
Hospitals and religious renewal: the Incurables Hospital......Page 141
Hospitals and the Counter-Reformation......Page 142
Lay confraternities......Page 144
The Ministers of the Sick......Page 146
The monti: types and functions......Page 148
Community physicians and surgeons......Page 150
Poverty, public order and the state......Page 152
Notes......Page 154
Introduction......Page 160
A new perception of poverty in sixteenth-century Castile......Page 163
Poor laws and proposals on poor relief......Page 165
The ‘new hospitality’ of Miquel Giginta......Page 167
The ‘General Reformation’ of Pérez de Herrera......Page 170
Poor relief institutions......Page 172
Conclusions......Page 178
Notes......Page 179
Introduction......Page 186
The Crown of Aragon hospital system......Page 188
The Valencia General Hospital......Page 193
Notes......Page 202
10 POOR RELIEF IN COUNTER-REFORMATION PORTUGAL: THE CASE OF THE MISERICÓRDIAS......Page 210
Notes......Page 219
11 PERSPECTIVES ON POOR RELIEF, HEALTH CARE AND THE COUNTER-REFORMATION IN FRANCE......Page 224
Notes......Page 242
Introduction......Page 248
Self-help as the first and dominant strategy for coping with illness......Page 250
Institutions for indoor relief for the sick poor......Page 253
Institutions for outdoor medical care for the poor......Page 266
The penetration of Catholic reform into people’s minds and practices, as far as their attitudes towards the poor are concerned......Page 273
Survey and perspectives......Page 275
Notes......Page 278
13 HEALTH CARE AND POVERTY RELIEF IN COUNTER-REFORMATION CATHOLIC GERMANY......Page 288
Notes......Page 305
INDEX......Page 312