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Author_Timothy G. Fehler
Calvinist Emden
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church council records
Church Discipline
Church Ordinance
Common Chest
confessional change
discipline
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Dutch Refugees
Early Modern Poor Relief
early modern welfare
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East Frisia
Emden Church
Emden's Sixteenth Century
Emden’s Sixteenth Century
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Foreign Beggars
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Franciscan Monastery
French Congregation
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institutions
Lutheran Church Ordinances
Lutheran Congregation
Mennonite Congregation
monastery
ordinance
Police Ordinance
Poor Relief
Poor Relief Administrators
Poor Relief Agencies
Poor Relief Institutions
Poor Relief Ordinance
Poor Relief Recipients
Poor Relief Reform
Reformation era social policy
refugee crisis history
refugees
Relief Administrators
Shipper Brotherhood
social disciplining
Timothy G. Fehler
Welfare Reforms
Product details
- ISBN 9781859283783
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is a study of the organisation and practical operation of the system of poor relief in Emden from the late 15th century to the end of the 16th. The city went through dramatic economic, confessional and constitutional changes during this period and so offers an ideal setting for the study of the emergence and development of a highly organised, multi-jurisdictional system of social welfare in the early modern period. Utilising account books, church council minutes, wills, contracts, correspondence and guild records it focuses on the day-to-day operation of poor relief - how the many diverse institutions actually functioned. As elsewhere in Europe, the Reformation did not immediately result in swift changes in poor relief; the Roman Catholic components of the administration of social welfare were dissolved and replaced gradually. It was only when the vast changes in religious, social and economic life which occurred at the middle of the 16th century forced matters that the methods of relief for the needy were revolutionised. The city was flooded with refugees from the Dutch revolt, there were widespread and severe economic difficulties caused by bad harvests and skyrocketing prices, and the church underwent a period of intense Calvinisation; only then were Reformed institutions and methods introduced. At times, religious arguments dominated the poor relief debate, while at others the social welfare system was barely affected; the effectiveness of the new systems and institutions is illuminated by an analysis of the recipients of relief during the second half of the 16th century.
Timothy G. Fehler, Furman University, USA
