An innovative study of gift-giving, informal support and charity in
England between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos examines the adaptation and transformation
of varied forms of informal help, challenging long held views and
assumptions about the decline of voluntary giving and personal
obligations in the transition from medieval to modern times.
Merging historical research with insights drawn from theories of
gift-giving, the book analyses practices of informal support within
varied social networks, associations and groups over the entire
period. It argues that the processes entailed in the Reformation,
state formation and the implementation of the poor laws, as well as
market and urban expansion, acted as powerful catalysts for many
forms of informal help. Within certain boundaries, the early modern
era witnessed the diversification, increase and invigoration,
rather than the demise, of gift-giving and informal support.
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