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The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal (Paperback)
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The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal (Paperback)
Series: The History of Medicine in Context
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By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had
witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health
care policies. As this book demonstrates, Portugal was among them
and actively participated in such reforms. Providing the first
English language monograph on this this topic, Laurinda Abreu
examines the Portuguese experience and places it within the broader
European context. She shows that, in line with much that was
happening throughout the rest of Europe, Portugal had not only set
up a systematic reform of the hospitals but had also developed new
formal arrangements for charitable and welfare provision that
responded to the changing socioeconomic framework, the nature of
poverty and the concerns of political powers. The defining element
of the Portuguese experience was the dominant role played by a new
lay confraternity, the confraternity of the Misericordia, created
under the auspices of King D. Manuel I in 1498. By the time of the
king's death in 1521 there were more than 70 Misericordias in
Portugal and its empire, and by 1640, more than 300. All of them
were run according to a unified set of rules and principles with
identical social objectives. Based upon a wealth of primary source
documentations, this book reveals how the sixteenth-century
Portuguese crown succeeded in implementing a national poor relief
and health care structure, with the support of the Papacy and local
elites, and funded principally though pious donations. This process
strengthened the authority of the royal government at a time which
coincided with the emergence of the early modern state. In so
doing, the book establishes poor relief and public health alongside
military, diplomatic and administrative authorities, as the pillars
of centralization of royal power.
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