The devil's poor and the invisible city charity, order and agency in early modern England
This dissertation examines the discourses and practices of charity and poor relief in early modern England in order to characterize changing views of the relation between the individual and the basis of social order. The first part proposes a genealogy of idleness, drawing on Weber's analysis o...
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1998
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| Online Access: | http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/785/1/NQ43565.pdf Engler, Steven <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Engler=3ASteven=3A=3A.html> (1998) The devil's poor and the invisible city charity, order and agency in early modern England. PhD thesis, Concordia University. |