Religion and Mendicity in Seventeenth-Century France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9967645 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emanuel Chill (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1962 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 400-425 |
| Publication date | 1962-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859000002133 |
| OpenAlex | W2064390712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 6 |
From the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, as absolutism emerged in its classic development, the lower classes of western Europe experienced great insecurity and hardship. The Hundred Years' War, the end of serfdom, the quickening of economic activity, the secular price advance, and the explosion of religious conflict shattered traditional social bonds, produced widespread destitution, and uprooted large numbers of peasants who took to the roads in a desperate nomadism. These vagrant populations, existing on theft, brigandage and, mainly, begging, evoked severe governmental repression which was to prove generally unpopular and, in the long run, ineffective. In seventeenth-century France certain private groups also were to take up the cause of repressing vagabondage through a systematic program of confinement in workhouses – a program which, while complementing royal policy, would draw its main inspiration from the ascetic spirituality of the French Counter Reformation. These hôpitaux généraux are of interest as concrete expressions of the convergence of social problems, absolutist political tendencies, and religious attitudes
Ancient history · Asceticism · Begging · Economic history · Embezzlement · Fifteenth · Gentry · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Quickening · Serfdom · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
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| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1973 - 2024 (52) |
| Highly cited | No |