Abstract
This chapter aims to detail evaluation of the specific features of the network of Misericórdias, which arguably serves as an important reference model for any wider understanding of the evolution of poorhouses throughout the early modern period. The variety of historiographic literature relating to poverty and welfare has demonstrated the perennial concern of the subject within the early modern world, where ideas of poverty and vagrancy assumed a new relevance in the day-to-day of multiple communities. Theological discourse presented a new perspective on the religious experience, one that urged laypeople to be more active in their charity. The renewed zeal for good works encouraged the reform of welfare provision that developed across Catholic Europe during the early modern period and had a transformative effect on attitudes towards poverty and the practice of charity. The volunteer work demanded abnegation, self-motivation, time, and physical effort.
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