| On Assistance to the Poor Contributor(s): Vives, Juan Luis (Author), Tobriner, Alice (Translator), Tobriner, Alice (Commentaries by) |
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ISBN: 0802082890 ISBN-13: 9780802082893 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1999 Annotation: 'I wish we were able to eliminate poverty completely in this city.' Those words written by Juan Luis Vives, a Spanish humanist living in Bruges in 1526, could have been written in the late twentieth century. The urban problems of sixteenth-century Bruges are very familiar to the modern reader: poverty, overcrowding, crime, the problems of the mentally ill, and the issue of the responsibility of government for the care of the poor. Published in 1526, On Assistance to the Poor was Vives's effort to bring these questions to the attention of the City Council of Bruges, and have them addressed by local government. His distinctive development of a single integrated system out of the several practices already in use in Northern Europe presaged the English Poor Laws of 1601 arid later laws in the New World. The present edition, originally published in 1971 with an introduction, translation, and commentary by Sister Alice Tobriner, is a valuable primary source in Renaissance social history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Renaissance - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness |
| Dewey: 362.58 |
| LCCN: 00550963 |
| Series: Rsart: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5.98" W x 9.16" (0.26 lbs) 71 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'I wish we were able to eliminate poverty completely in this city' Those words written by Juan Luis Vives, a Spanish humanist living in Bruges in 1526, could have been written in the late twentieth century. The urban problems of sixteenth-century Bruges are very familiar to the modern reader: poverty, overcrowding, crime, the problems of the mentally ill, and the issue of the responsibility of government for the care of the poor. Published in 1526, On Assistance to the Poor was Vives' effort to bring these questions to the attention of the City Council of Bruges, and have them addressed by local government. His distinctive development of a single integrated system out of the several practices already in use in Northern Europe presaged the English Poor Laws of 1601 and later laws in the New World. The present edition, originally published in 1971 with an introduction, translation, and commentary by Sister Alice Tobriner, is a valuable primary source in Renaissance social history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tobriner, Alice: - Alice Tobriner is an independent scholar affiliated with Holy Names College, Oakland. |