The reformation of charity : the secular and the religious in early modern poor relief / edited by Thomas Max Safley.

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
The poverty of Christ
Charity and the Reformation in Italy: the case of Treviso
"Con buona affetione": confraternities, charity, and the poor in early cinquecento Florence
Welfare, Reformation, and death at Memmingen
Poor relief and health care provision in south-German Catholic cities during the sixteenth century
Refashioning poor relief in early modern Emden
Calvinism and poor relief in Reformation Holland
Welfare reform in Frisian towns: between humanist theory, pious imperatives, and government policy
Mennonites and sectarian poor relief in golden-age Amsterdam
Curing body and soul: health care in early modern Orange
Motivations for charity in early modern France
Conclusion
Index.