Medieval Poor Law
Author: Brian Tierney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
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The English Poor Law, 1531-1782
Author: Paul Slack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-09-28
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780521557856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.
Poor Relief in England, 1350–1600
Author: Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1139503650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the mid-fourteenth century and the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, English poor relief moved toward a more coherent and comprehensive network of support. Marjorie McIntosh's study, the first to trace developments across that time span, focuses on three types of assistance: licensed begging and the solicitation of charitable alms; hospitals and almshouses for the bedridden and elderly; and the aid given by parishes. It explores changing conceptions of poverty and charity and altered roles for the church, state and private organizations in the provision of relief. The study highlights the creativity of local people in responding to poverty, cooperation between national levels of government, the problems of fraud and negligence, and mounting concern with proper supervision and accounting. This ground-breaking work challenges existing accounts of the Poor Laws, showing that they addressed problems with forms of aid already in use rather than creating a new system of relief.
Medieval Poor Law
Author: Brian Tierney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0520345614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.
Welfare's Forgotten Past
Author: Lorie Charlesworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-12-16
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 1135179638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThat ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not simply local custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that went beyond social altruism. This legal ‘truth’ is, however, still ignored or rejected by some historians, and thus ‘lost’ to social welfare policy-makers. This forgetting or minimising of a legal, enforceable right to relief has not only led to a misunderstanding of welfare’s past; it has also contributed to the stigmatisation of poverty, and the emergence and persistence of the idea that its relief is a 'gift' from the state. Documenting the history and the effects of this forgetting, whilst also providing a ‘legal’ history of welfare, Lorie Charlesworth argues that it is timely for social policy-makers and reformists – in Britain, the United States and elsewhere – to reconsider an alternative welfare model, based on the more positive, legal aspects of welfare’s 400-year legal history.
Social Welfare in Pre-industrial England
Author: Paul A. Fideler
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Published: 2006-03-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0333688953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrossing 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.
Law and Society in Later Medieval England and Ireland
Author: Paul Brand
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780367594367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaw mattered in later medieval England and Ireland. From the charter to the will to the court roll, the majority of the documents which have survived from later medieval England and Ireland, and medieval Europe in general, are legal in nature. Yet despite the fact that law played a prominent role in medieval society, legal history has long been a m
A History of the English Poor Law
Author: George Nicholls
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 644
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860
Author: Larry Patriquin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-10-11
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0230591388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the evolution of public assistance for the poor in England from the late medieval era to the Industrial Revolution. Placing poor relief in the context of the unique class relations of agrarian capitalism, it considers how and why relief in England in the early modern period was distinct.
The Problem of the Poor in Tudor and Early Stuart England
Author: A.L. Beier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 1135836027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pamphlet examines recent research into the poor laws of Tudor and Stuart England. Dr Beier asks the question ‘who were the poor?’ and in answering it places the ‘problem of the poor’ in its historical context, examining it in relation to medieval provisions for dealing with poverty. He shows how far legislation was influenced by economic changes, by ideas about poverty and by the interests of the legislators themselves. Dr Beier evaluates the varying interpretations of the poor laws, from those who have seen them as an early ‘welfare state’ to those who have considered them to be the manifestation of a ‘Protestant ethic’. The major poor-law statues are summarized in an appendix, and there is a useful bibliography.
