A study in the ideology of wealth and poverty

This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and g

In the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity. Nearly half of the ch

This book examines the complex interrelationship between charity, confession, and capital in the orphanages of Augsburg, one of early modern Europe's great manu