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Charity and welfare in early modern Tuscany
No full textBook synopsis: The role of religion was of paramount importance in the change of attitudes and approaches to health care and charity which took place in the centuries following the Council of Trent. Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe, examines the effects of the Counter-Reformation on health care and poor relief in Southern Catholic Europe in the period between 1540 and 1700.
As well as a comprehensive introduction discussing issues of the nature of the Catholic or Counter-Reformation and the welfare provisions of the period, Health Care and Poor Relief sets the period in its social, economic, religious and ideological context. The book draws on the practices in different localities in Southern Europe, ranging from the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Naples to Germany and Austria. These examples establish how and why a revitalised and strenghtened post-Tridentine Catholic church managed to reshape and reinvigorate welfare provisions in Southern Europe
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The Impact of the European Reformation: Princes, Clergy and people
No full textRecent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies with research increasingly confined within specific geographical, confessional, and chronological boundaries. By bringing together scholars working on a wide variety of topics, this volume provides a broad perspective on the wider inpact of the Reformation
Juan de Santo Tomás. O.P., confesor de Felipe IV de España (1643-1644)
No full textL'attuazione del religioso Sto. Tomás di fronte al confessore del Re
The reluctant philanthropist: Robert Boyle and the 'Communication of Secrets and Receits in Physick'
No full textThis paper explores Boyle’s wish freely to provide medicines, especially for the poor, and the tensions that he experienced in doing so. Boyle believed strongly that such provision was his Christian duty, and he did ultimately publish a collection of recipes, on the preparation of which he had worked for many years. However, this occurred only right at the end of his life, having been preceded by a trial edition that was privately printed and is so rare that no copies of it now survive. The reasons for Boyle’s diffidence over putting material of this kind into print are here outlined in detail, involving issues of reputation, of the suspicion of plagiarism, and of worries over the reliability of data that he had acquired from others. In the course of this, it becomes apparent that in his private manuscripts Boyle was more critical of the medical establishment than he was prepared to admit in public, and the paper thus reveals a more pusillanimous Boyle than that presented in other recent scholarly interpretations of him
Saint Augustine's Critical Judgment of the Pagan Writers
No full textThe following is an attempt to study Saint Augustine’s attitude toward the Greek and Latin pagan writers. An effort has been made to record all of the direct quotations of the pagan authors used by Saint Augustine in the twenty-two books of his Be Civitate Dei. |I have undertaken to emphasize the fact that the number of times an author has been quoted and the manner in which each author has been described somewhat emphasizes Augustine’s judgment of them. |Therefore, with the chart containing the above mentioned information, I have included short commentaries and recordings of those quotations to indicate Augustine’s appraisal of those who were responsible for them.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Pieter van Foreest and the Acquistion and Travelling of Medical Knowledge in the Sixteenth Century
No full textThe Alcott Home in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
No full textTime and again writers of fiction have divulged the sources of their story material. Even a cursory glance at these occasional confessions reveals that authors utilize a surprising amount of their personal experiences. Especially do they treat successfully in fictional presentation the happenings of their early life. Indeed, some of the best stories and novels and poems are end-products of childhood activities, thoughts, and imaginative flights. One case in point is that perennial favorite of children and adults alike--Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Here if ever is an instance where the author first lived all that she later transmuted into a narrative of irresistible and unfading charm. |The impact of the Alcott family life was strong upon every one of its members. But we are here mainly concerned with the impressionability of Louisa May. We are furthermore interested not only in how she received impressions but in how she used them for artistic purposes, For this reason we need a survey of the beginning and growth of the whole Alcott family. More specifically, consideration shall be given to the family in general, to the Alcott parents and daughters in particular, to the emergence and development of literary talent in Louisa May, to the manifestation of this talent in Little Women, and finally to a critical evaluation of the famous hook as the synthesis and exemplification of wholesome family living. |ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Pieter van Foreest and the Acquistion and Travelling of Medical Knowledge in the Sixteenth Century
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