Hanging with History
Hanging with History
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227. Tudor Poor Laws and Approach to Poverty
Europe wide, there were Humanist driven policy responses to poverty in the 16th century, which we have covered in some detail. These were essentially all failures.There was one successful poverty program which, despite many flaws, ...
226. Luther, Erasmus and the Poor
During the 16th century, this whole social controversy over the treatment of the poor ranged across and intersected with the Reformation. You also have the social changes happening where the power of the central court is growing and that ...
225. Early Modern Poverty, Part 4
We left last episode with the policy response of Venice, Ypres, Rouen and Grenoble to first the 1527-1531 famine and later structural response. Today, we’ll look at Lyons, Valladolid and England. It’s not easy, it never ...
224. Early Modern Poverty Part 3
We are summarizing the problem circa 1525, before we get into the pan-European, well, Western European, solutions to the problem, driven by the Humanists.We have a simultaneous admiration and horror towards poverty. The warmth stem...
223 Early Modern Poverty; The Medieval Roots
Last episode we had the emotional episode about the sufferings of paupers in 16th century Italy. So we are now done.. with autophagy, cannibalism, dung eating, baker murdering, and all that.We are now moving on to a European wide r...