Experiences of Poverty in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and France

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Contents: Preface Experiences of poverty, Anne M. Scott Part I Survival Strategies: experience of being poor in late medieval England, Christopher Dyer a Oppressed by utter povertya (TM): survival strategies for single mothers and their children in late medieval England, Philippa C. Maddern Pauper apprenticeship in South Derbyshire: a positive experience?, Ann Minister experience of single women in early modern Norwich: a rank beggars, gresse maydes and harlotsa (TM), Lesley Silvester. Part II Forms of Poor Relief: a The names of all the poore peoplea (TM): corporate and parish relief in Exeter, 1560s-1570s, Nicholas D. Brodie politics of charitable men: governing poverty in 16th-century Paris, Susan Broomhall Charitable a intenta (TM) in late 16th-century France: the Nevers foundation and single poor Catholic girls, Lisa Keane Elliott Reckless endangerment?: feeding the poor prisoners of London in the early 18th century, Margaret Dorey Inoculation of the poor against smallpox in 18th-century England, Michael Bennett. Part III Textual and Visual Representations: Poverty as a mobile signifier: Waldensians, Lollards, Dives and Pauper, Mark Amsler Le Chastel de Labour, la Voie de PovretA(c) ou de Richesse and a luxury book, Widener 1 , Free Library of Philadelphia, Anne M. Scott gifts of the poor: worth and value, poverty and justice in Robert Dabornea (TM)s Poor Mana (TM)s Comfort, Mike Nolan a The sounds of population faila (TM): changing perceptions of rural poverty and plebian noise in 18th-century Britain, Peter Denney Select bibliography Index.