Apprenticeship in Social Welfare: From Confraternal Charity to Municipal Poor Relief in Early Modern Italy
In Bologna from the 1490s to the 1530s a small group of patrician families took control of the city's confraternal hostels, infirmaries, orphanages, and foundling homes. They rationalized these institutions and vested power in self-perpetuating boards of sindics. The patricians' experience...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1994
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1994, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-120 |
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| Summary: | In Bologna from the 1490s to the 1530s a small group of patrician families took control of the city's confraternal hostels, infirmaries, orphanages, and foundling homes. They rationalized these institutions and vested power in self-perpetuating boards of sindics. The patricians' experience led them, by the mid-sixteenth century, to propose a comprehensive overhaul of social assistance on the municipal level where what they believed to be the necessary modifications-enclosure, discipline, and the reform of beggars through education and a workhouse-could be achieved with the use of legal sanctions not available to confraternal charities. The details of their plan, called the Opera dei Mendicanti, show that it was deliberately modeled on confraternal organization. Experience with confraternal charitable institutions gave patricians better understanding of social needs that were beyond the capacity of individual charitable agencies; this experience allowed them to shape a workable comprehensive program of municipal poor relief. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2542555 |