Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe / Edition 1

by Robert Jütte

Overview

This study provides an accessible and authoritative account of poverty and deviance during the early modern period, informed by those new perspectives on the role of the poor themselves in the provision of welfare services characteristic of much recent social history. Contrary to the once-traditional historical emphasis on the ameliorative role of individual reformers, Professor Jútte's account looks much more closely at the poor themselves, and the complex network of social and communal relationships they inhabited.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521423229
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/31/1994
Series:	New Approaches to European History , #4
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Images of poverty; 3. The causes of poverty; 4. The extent of poverty; 5. Standards of living among the poor; 6. The poor helping themselves; 7. The reorganization of poor relief; 8. Forms of deviance; 9. Strategies of marginalization; 10. Reactions to marginalization; 11. Conclusion; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...an admirable scholarly synthesis deserving of a place in academic libraries..." D. C. Baxter, Choice

"...this is a learned and inclusive synthesis concerning what we know about poverty historically since the early modern period: its images, cause, extent, standard of living, self-help, reorganization of poor relief, forms of deviance, strategies of marginalization (stigmatizing, segregating, and confining), and a final section reporting reactions such as poverty subculture, rebellion, and (e)migration." Sixteenth Century Journal

"...this is a text which Europeanists and their students will find useful." Canadian Journal of History

"[Jútte] has effectively shown how scholars focusing on poverty and deviance have 'modernized' their field of study by incorporating the perspectives of anthropology, linguistics, semiotics, and the new cultural history." | Steven G. Reinhardt, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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