Cultures of Care

Domestic Welfare, Discipline and the Church of Scotland, C. 1600-1689
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42097-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Cultures of Care: Domestic Welfare, Discipline and the Church of Scotland, c. 1600–1689 explores voluntary networks of charity and their interaction with the Reformed Church of Scotland. Whereas most previous histories have assessed the growth of institutional charity, this book contends that the Reformed Church of Scotland was heavily reliant on informal, domestic modes of self-help throughout the seventeenth century.

The existence and widespread acceptance of informal care dramatically changes our understanding of the impact of the Calvinist Reformation. Local ecclesiastical and secular leaders did not have a concerted policy to affect or ameliorate informal networks of care. Reformed authorities were members of these networks, as well as agents to police them, collapsing distinctions between informal and formal modes of Calvinist authority.

Autoren/Hrsg.

R Langley, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Organisation & Institutionen von Kirchen und Gemeinden
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Reformierte Kirchen, Calvinisten, presbyterianische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction

1 Poor Relief

2 Non-Institutional Charity, Domesticity and Reformed Intervention

3 Method and Sources

4 Charity and the Kirk Session

1 Kindness and the Parish

1 Carers and Care Acts

2 Petitioning

2 Childcare

1 Fosterage and Wet Nursing

2 Childcare and Sermons

3 Illegitimacy

1 Parish Networks

2 Fostering Bastards

3 Negligence and Infanticide

4 Illness

1 Neighbourly and Kin Assistance

2 Disciplinary Consequences

3 Charming

5 Disability

1 Attitudes towards Disability

2 Parish Stability

6 Death

1 Providing Deathbed Care

2 Clerics and Carers

3 Post-Mortem Practices

Conclusion

1 Informality

2 Social Capital

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chris R. Langley, Ph.D. (2012, University of Aberdeen), is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern British History at Newman University, Birmingham. He is the author of Worship, Civil War and Community, 1638–1660.