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Author:   Anne M. Scott
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.816kg
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9781409441083

ISBN 10:   1409441083
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   28 October 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Experiences of Poverty; I: Survival Strategies; 2: The Experience of Being Poor in Late Medieval England; 3: ‘Oppressed by Utter Poverty': Survival Strategies for Single Mothers and Their Children in Late Medieval England; 4: Pauper Apprenticeship in South Derbyshire: A Positive Experience?; 5: The Experience of Single Women in Early Modern Norwich: ‘Rank Beggars, Gresse Maydes and Harlots'; II: Forms of Poor Relief; 6: ‘The Names of All the Poore People': Corporate and Parish Relief in Exeter, 1560s–1570s; 7: The Politics of Charitable Men: Governing Poverty in Sixteenth-Century Paris; 8: Charitable ‘Intent' in Late Sixteenth-Century France: The Nevers Foundation and Single Poor Catholic Girls; 9: Reckliss Endangerment?: Feeding the Poor Prisoners of London in the Early Eighteenth Century; 10: Inoculation of the Poor against Smallpox in Eighteenth-Century England; III: Textual and Visual Representations; 11: Poverty as a Mobile Signifier: Waldensians, Lollards, Dives and Pauper; 12: Le Chastel de Labour, La Voie de Povreté ou de Richesse and a Luxury Book, Widener 1, Free Library of Philadelphia; 13: The Gifts of the Poor: Worth and Value, Poverty and Justice in Robert Daborne's The Poor Man's Comfort; 14: ‘The Sounds of Population Fail': Changing Perceptions of Rural Poverty and Plebeian Noise in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Reviews

'Given the high quality of the writing, and with its consistent emphasis on giving identity to the poor, this book will be valuable to any reader wishing to better understand the complex texture of poverty in pre-modern England and France.' French Review 'Experiences of Poverty [...] offers important and unique contributions to the historiography... The particular value of this book is that while the authors unambiguously situate their studies within well-defined historiographical traditions, they base their own research upon previously untapped sources or re-examine known sources from a new perspective... this multi-disciplinary book is highly recommended.' Social History '... this collection of essays succeeds in outlining the complex realities and representations of poverty across a broad chronological sweep.' Sixteenth Century Journal

Author Information

Anne M. Scott was, until recently, Convenor of the Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research 2006-2010 and is currently an honorary research fellow at the University of Western Australia. Her field of research is in fourteenth-century English Literature, and she has published a monograph, Piers Plowman and the poor, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004, three volumes of collected essays, and several essays on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English literature. She is Editor of Parergon, the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, now available as part of the Project MUSE database. Anne M. Scott, Christopher Dyer, Philippa C. Maddern, Ann Minister, Lesley Silvester, Nicholas D. Brodie, Susan Broomhall, Lisa Keane Elliott, Margaret Dorey, Michael Bennett, Mark Amsler, Mike Nolan, Peter Denney.

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