Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

by Thomas Max Safley

350 pages· 1997· ISBN 9780391039834
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This book examines the complex interrelationship between charity, confession, and capital in the orphanages of Augsburg, one of early modern Europe's great manufacturing and mercantile centers. The product of monumental, original research, if offers a thorough-going revision of current historical scholarship on poor relief, social discipline, organization building, and emergent capitalism.

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