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- Title
BETWEEN TOWN AND CHURCH: PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND CHARITY IN THE CLERMONT HOSPITALS IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
- Authors
GOUDOT, GREGORY
- Abstract
This article examines a tension that set apart assistance and charity in the early modern period: municipalization, so characteristic of the sixteenth century, on the one hand; and on the other, the return of religious influence from 1600, as the Tridentine model spread. The study focuses on an episcopal city in the provinces, Clermont, which experienced the reform of hospitals during the Renaissance in its own way because of the status of the bishops as local lords and the lack of any real political representation in the city until the middle of the sixteenth century. The municipalization of assistance, which took place later here than elsewhere, was quickly countered by the presence of clerks in new establishments that appeared in the course of the seventeenth century. Establishing a modus vivendi between laymen and clerks was a key phase in the move from traditional charity to the first organized public assistance, which helped to advance a new phase of modernization. By breaking with the classic French focus on royal action, which was generally absent in the Auvergne, this article builds on recent anglophone historiography by seeing local actors as vital in the evolution of institutions.
- Subjects
CLERMONT (France); FRANCE; HOSPITAL financing; PUBLIC welfare; CHARITIES; SOCIAL history; RENAISSANCE; FRENCH church history; HISTORY
- Publication
French History, 2015, Vol 29, Issue 4, p469
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crv015