Title: Concerning the Relief of the Poor; or, Concerning Human Need
Subtitle: A Letter Addressed to the Senate of Bruges
First published: 1917
Description: Letter addressed to the Senate of Bruges by Juan-Luis Vives on January 6, 1526. Vives' ideas on the relief of the poor from a single integrated system based on the various practices already in use in northern Europe foreshadowed the English Poor Laws of 1601 and the later laws of the New World.
Subjects: Poor, Early works to 1800, Public welfare, Services for, History, Social conditions, Poverty, Social Welfare
LC classification: HV13 .S8 no. 11, HV22 .V5413 1999