BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 THE COUNTER-REFORMATION AND WELFARE PROVISION IN SOUTHERN EUROPE; 2 THE COUNTER-REFORMATION, MEDICAL CARE AND POOR RELIEF; 3 COUNTER-REFORMATION, ECONOMIC DECLINE, AND THE DELAYED IMPACT OF THE MEDICAL REVOLUTION IN CATHOLIC EUROPE, 1550-1750; 4 CHARITY AND WELFARE IN EARLY MODERN TUSCANY; 5 'AD UNA SANCTA PERFETTION': HEALTH CARE AND POOR RELIEF IN THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE IN THE ERA OF THE COUNTER-REFORMATION
Summary
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