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Exploring a range of poverty experiences-socioeconomic, moral and spiritual-this collection presents new research by a distinguished group of scholars working in the medieval and early modern periods. Using new sources-and adopting new approaches to known sources-the authors share insights into the management and the self-management of the poor, and search out aspects of the experience of poverty worthy of note, from which can be traced lasting influences on the continuing understanding and experience of poverty in pre-modern Europe.

History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of France --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Poverty --- Poor --- Pauvreté --- Pauvres --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- England --- France --- Angleterre --- Social conditions. --- Conditions sociales --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- England -- Social conditions. --- Poor -- England -- History. --- Poverty -- England -- History. --- Poverty -- France -- History. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Pauvreté

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In this interdisciplinary and cross-cultural volume edited by Dr. Cynthia Kosso and Dr. Anne Scott, medieval and Early Modern historians and literary scholars unearth, define, and re-define the nature of poverty and prosperity. Through the exploration of texts, religious and spiritual behavior, statistics, class and gender issues, philosophical concepts, and figurative language, the authors investigate poverty and wealth in Middle Ages and Early Modern era. As the introduction to the volume states, “It stands to reason that the multitude of ways in which we represent and have discussed wealth or its absence; the myriad conditions that make us either rich or poor, prosperous or impoverished; and the ways in which we have maintained the better condition or have ameliorated the worse have captured our imaginations and intellect, as they continue to do today.” These essays provide a nuanced examination of the conceptualization and material representation of two terms that help define and shape our very existence today. Drs. Kosso and Scott are the editors of Fear and its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2002) and The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance (2009).

Poverty --- Wealth --- Charity --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Poverty in literature --- Wealth in literature --- Charity in literature --- History --- Religious aspects --- Attitudes --- Political aspects --- Poor --- Congresses --- History. --- Political aspects. --- Pauvreté --- Richesse --- Charité --- Moyen âge

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Frauenverband. --- Geschichte. --- Organisaties. --- Vrouwen. --- Vrouwenorganisaties. --- Women volunteers in social service --- Women volunteers in social service. --- Women --- Women --- Women --- Women --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Societies and clubs --- History. --- Societies and clubs. --- USA. --- United States.

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History --- Women --- Book --- Edited volume --- United States of America

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Fear is a topic that appeals to a wide audience and is particularly of interest today. In the modern world, we fear war and terrorism, economic recession, and environmental degradation: these fears make up a great portion of the fabric of our daily lives. This is a volume of essays on fear and its representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In it, the authors raise and try to answer questions about the ways in which individuals, families, and nations five-hundred, one-thousand, or even fifteen-hundred years ago approached the idea of fear.The interdisciplinary nature of this volume and its editors (an historian of late antiquity and professor of literature of the Middle Ages) motivates an analysis of fear from a multitude of perspectives and within a host of secular and religious literature, historical treatises, scholastic works, art, and political accounts. The volume covers several main topics: Defining the Nature of Fear; Fear and Religion; Fear in Politics and Cultural Identity; Fear as a Literary and Dramatic Device; The Fears of Courtly Lovers, Knights, and Poets; Fear and the Mystic.Through its breadth, depth, and interdisciplinary focus, the present volume makes a full contribution to the study of fear in medieval and Renaissance culture for historians, art historians, students of language and philosophy and anyone interested in how people in the past have experienced fear.

Fear --- Literature, Medieval --- Literature, Modern --- Fear in literature --- Fear --- History --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Mediaeval studies --- Literature --- History --- Fear