Title: Health care and poor relief in Counter-Reformation Europe /
Authors: Grell, Ole Peter.; Cunningham, Andrew,; Arrizabalaga, Jon.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Social Welfare; Delivery of Health Care; Social Welfare history; Catholicism; Delivery of Health Care history; Poor Medical care Europe, Southern Religious aspects Catholic Church History.; Public welfare Europe, Southern Religious aspects Catholic Church History.; Counter-Reformation Europe, Southern History.; Poor Medical care Europe, Southern History.; Poor Medical care Religious aspects Catholic Church History.; Public welfare Religious aspects Catholic Church History.; Public welfare Europe, Southern History.; Europe; Europe
Contents: The Counter-Reformation and welfare provision in Southern Europe / Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham -- The Counter-Reformation, medical care and poor relief / Brian Pullan -- Counter-Reformation, economic decline, and the delayed impact of the medical revolution in Catholic Europe, 1550-1750 / Jonathan Israel -- Charity and welfare in Early Modern Tuscany / John Henderson -- 'Ad una sancta perfettione' : health care and poor relief in the Republic of Venice in the era of the Counter-Reformation / Richard Palmer -- 'A fountain for the thristy' and a bank for the Pope : charity, conflicts, and medical careers at the Hospital of Santo Spirito in seventeenth-century Rome / Silvia De Renzi -- 'Cradle of saints and useful institutions' : health care and poor relief in the Kingdom of Naples / David Gentilcore -- Poor relief in Counter-Reformation Castile : an overview / Jon Arrizabalaga -- Health care and poor relief in the Crown of Aragon / María Luz López Terrada -- Poor relief in Counter-Reformation Portugal : the case of the Misericórdias / Isabel M.R. Mendes Drumond Braga -- Perspectives on poor relief, health care and the Counter-Reformation in France / Colin Jones --Health care and poor relief in regional Southern France in the Counter-Reformation / Martin Dinges -- Health care and poverty relief in Counter-Reformation Catholic Germany / Bernad Roeck.