Title Cultures of charity : women, politics, and the reform of poor relief in Renaissance Italy / Nicholas Terpstra.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2013]
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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	362.557 T322C	Check Shelf

Description	x, 379 pages ; 25 cm.
Series	I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
	I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-365) and index.
Contents	1. Showing the poor a good time : gender, class, and charitable cultures. Two cultures of charity ; "Good mothers of the family" -- 2. Worthy poor, worthy rich : women's poverty and charitable institutions. The turning wheel : charitable institutions and life cycle poverty ; The critical decade ; Nights and days at the opera -- 3. Tightening control : the narrowing politics of charity. Making it work ; People versus patricians : civil society and controlling charity -- 4. Meeting the bottom line : alms, taxes, work and legacies. Begging for beggars : keeping the opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti afloat ; Taxation by other means ; Making a workhouse ; Deeper in debt and richer all the time : building a legacy -- 5. The wheel keeps turning : moving beyond the opera. Enclosing the circle : shelters and the reform of poor women ; Credit where credit was due : investing in marriage ; Beyond charity : mutual assistance and the working poor -- 6. Baroque piety and the qualità of mercy. Bringing discipline to practical charity ; The aesthetics of poverty and the qualità of mercy.
Chronological Term	1500-talet
Subject	Välgörenhet -- historia.
	Charities. (OCoLC)fst00852404
	Women -- Italy -- Bologna -- History.
	Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
	Levnadsförhållanden.
	Politik -- reformer.
	Socialhistoria.
	Armenzorg.
	Fattiga.
	Italy. (DE-588)4027833-5
	Barmhartigheid.
Local Subject	Poor people -- Italy -- Bologna -- History.
Subject	Bologna. (DE-588)4007616-7
	Kvinnor.
	Frau. (DE-588)4018202-2
Chronological Term	1600-talet
Subject	Italy -- Bologna. (OCoLC)fst01204551
	Liefdadigheid.
	Bologna (Italy) -- Social conditions.
	Italy -- Bologna.
	Poor -- Italy -- Bologna -- History.
	Italië.
	Välgörenhet -- kvinnorollen -- Italien -- Bologna -- renässansen.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Politik. (DE-588)4046514-7
	Renaissance.
	Fattigdom.
	Fürsorge. (DE-588)4018801-2
	Poor. (OCoLC)fst01071040
	Charities -- Italy -- Bologna -- History.
ISBN	9780674067097 (alk. paper)
	0674067096 (alk. paper)
	0674067924 (ebk)
	9780674067929

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