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1 online resource |
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Palgrave studies in economic history |
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Palgrave studies in economic history.
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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Formal and Informal Social Support Systems in Northern Italy: A Regional Assessment -- 1 Regional Approach to the Study of Social Support Systems -- 2 Why Northern Italy? -- 3 Formality and Informality -- 4 The Variety of Actions and Actors in Social Support Systems -- 5 The Complexity of Social Support Systems in Regional States -- References -- 2 Hospitals and Hospital Workers in the Late Middle Ages: Personal and Credit Relationships in Two Northern Italian Case Studies -- 1 Introduction |
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2 Santa Maria della Scala Hospital in Val d'Orcia: Hospital Workers in a Trial in the Late 1200s -- 3 Sant'Andrea Hospital's Farm Workers and Lands in Larizzate, Vercelli -- 4 The Fourteenth-Century Agricultural Accounting Registers of the Sant'Andrea Hospital: Employees, Debt, and Integration in the Hospital Economy -- 5 Conclusions -- Archival Sources -- 3 The Social Support System in the Kingdom of Sardinia: The Diocese of Tortona -- 1 The "Corporate" Nature of the Social Support System in the Modern Period: As an Introduction |
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2 The Social Support System in the Kingdom of Sardinia in the Eighteenth Century: A Case Study: The Diocese of Tortona -- 3 The Social Support System in the Diocese of Tortona: Sources -- 4 Grain Banks in the Diocese of Tortona: Case Studies -- 5 Concluding Observations -- Archival Sources -- 4 Organizing Charity: Social Support Structures in the Republic of Genoa During the Early Modern Period -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Economy of the Republic of Genoa and the Problem of Rural Poverty -- 3 Attempts at Centralization at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century |
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4 An Overview: The Inquiry of 1743-1744 -- 5 The Case of Brugnato -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Archival Sources -- 5 The Ritual Economy: Charity and Worship in Early Modern Lombardy -- 1 What Is Inside Charity? The Charitable Assets -- 2 For a Sociology of Pious Legacies -- 3 The Sociology of Obligations -- References -- 6 Social Support Systems in Imperial Fiefdoms -- 1 Historiographical and Interpretive Coordinates -- 2 Sources -- 3 Imperial Fiefdoms in the Diocese of Tortona -- 4 "By the Grace of God There Is No monte di carità Here": The Role of the Clergy in Imperial Fiefdoms |
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5 Social Support Systems -- 6 The Belnome Forest -- 7 Migration -- 8 Conclusions -- Archival Sources -- 7 Rural Microcredit in the Sharecropping Northern Provinces of the Papal States (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries) -- 1 General Overview -- 2 The Early Modern Period -- 3 The Napoleonic Era -- 4 The Restoration Period: From Recovery to Renewal -- 5 National Unification and New Trends of Institutional Reform -- 6 A Case Study: Imola -- Epilogue -- Archival Sources -- 8 Instruments and Strategies of the Social Support System in Rural Brescia During the Eighteenth Century |
| Summary |
This book examines the development of social support systems in the Modern age in the rural areas of the city-states of Northern Italy. This investigation achieves two main purposes: first, it allows researchers to understand the role occupied concretely by welfare and micro-credit activities in the political and socio-economic panorama of rural Northern Italy; secondly, it verifies to what extent the formation of a more or less structured support system influenced the establishment of local identity and the rooting of individuals. The book brings together perspectives from different fields of research ranging from economic and political history to the study of the history of ecclesiastical institutions, as well as integrating recent research on the anthropological value of welfare actions and the use of multiple historical sources. It considers how the retreat of the welfare activity of the State, associated with a depopulation of the rural areas of the peninsula and a steady increase of poverty into social fringes that were previously not affected by economic problems, pushes us to investigate more carefully the dynamics that in the Ancien Rgime gave shape to the support activities against indigence and poverty. This book will be of interest to academics and students working in economic history and social history. Giovanni Gregorini is Full Professor of Economic History and head of the Department of History and Philology at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, where he teaches Economic History and Business History. Luciano Maffi is a Lecturer in Economic and Global History at the University of Parma, Italy. He also teaches Economic History at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy. Marco Rochini is a Research Fellow at the Institute for History of Mediterranean Europe (National Research Council, Italy) and Adjunct Professor in Hagiography at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy. |
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Includes index |
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Welfare economics.
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Human services -- Economic aspects -- Italy, Northern
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Rural families -- Services for -- Italy, Northern
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Economic history
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Human services -- Economic aspects
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Rural conditions
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Rural families -- Services for
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Welfare economics
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Italy, Northern -- Economic conditions
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Italy, Northern -- Rural conditions
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Northern Italy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gregorini, Giovanni.
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Maffi, Luciano.
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Rochini, Marco.
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| ISBN |
9783031243035 |
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303124303X |
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