This examines the effects of the Counter- Reformation on health care and poor relief in Southern Catholic Europe in the period between 1540 and 1700.

Women have long been crucial to the provision of medical services, both in the treatment of sickness and in maintaining health. In this study, Susan Broomhall s

Spiritual ideals in early modern Europe shaped political and social poor relief structures just as much as rationalization and effective administration colored

Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helpe

For a number of years scholars who are concerned with issues of poverty and the poor have turned away from the study of charity and poor relief, in order to sea