Add to ORKGTudor England experienced crisis levels of poverty and unemployment which manifested in the form of widespread vagrancy during the sixteenth century. From 1530 to 1597 the central government, often with inspiration from local initiatives, enacted a series of laws which attempted to address the causes of the problems as perceived by the public, in an effort to quell popular fears and anxieties regarding vagrancy. The focus of this paper is on the response of Tudor society to the problems of poverty and vagrancy. It studies the statutory distinctions drawn between various states of poverty and how these differences disposed society towards categories of the poor. The impact of crime and the sense of economic instabilty caused by failed harves...
The treatment of vagrancy in eighteenth-century England has conventionally been seen as amateurish, ...
Abstract From 1837 the Poor Law Commission sanctioned temporary relief, at workhouses, for poor way...
Before the reformation and the schism of the Catholic Church, it had always been the duty of the Chu...
The general aim is to examine in detail the initiation of poor law policy by municipal authorities, ...
This thesis revises the late medieval and early modern legislative foundation of public welfare in ...
This thesis revises the late medieval and early modern legislative foundation of public welfare in ...
In many respects the sixteenth century in England marks the beginning of a definite acceleration tow...
The Author discusses the Poor Laws in the times of the Tudor monarchs, known to us at the Elizabetha...
Poverty has always been, and continues to be, one of the most pressing social problems, and one to w...
National crises such as September 11th and Hurricane Katrina resulted in an unprecedented outpouring...
The badging of the poor under the terms of the statute of 1697 has long been regarded as the most vi...
The treatment of vagrancy in eighteenth-century England has conventionally been seen as amateurish, ...
The treatment of vagrancy in eighteenth-century England has conventionally been seen as amateurish, ...
The treatment of vagrancy in eighteenth-century England has conventionally been seen as amateurish, ...
The treatment of vagrancy in eighteenth-century England has conventionally been seen as amateurish, ...
The treatment of vagrancy in eighteenth-century England has conventionally been seen as amateurish, ...
Abstract From 1837 the Poor Law Commission sanctioned temporary relief, at workhouses, for poor way...
Before the reformation and the schism of the Catholic Church, it had always been the duty of the Chu...
The general aim is to examine in detail the initiation of poor law policy by municipal authorities, ...
This thesis revises the late medieval and early modern legislative foundation of public welfare in ...
This thesis revises the late medieval and early modern legislative foundation of public welfare in ...
In many respects the sixteenth century in England marks the beginning of a definite acceleration tow...
The Author discusses the Poor Laws in the times of the Tudor monarchs, known to us at the Elizabetha...
Poverty has always been, and continues to be, one of the most pressing social problems, and one to w...
National crises such as September 11th and Hurricane Katrina resulted in an unprecedented outpouring...
The badging of the poor under the terms of the statute of 1697 has long been regarded as the most vi...
The treatment of vagrancy in eighteenth-century England has conventionally been seen as amateurish, ...
The treatment of vagrancy in eighteenth-century England has conventionally been seen as amateurish, ...
The treatment of vagrancy in eighteenth-century England has conventionally been seen as amateurish, ...
The treatment of vagrancy in eighteenth-century England has conventionally been seen as amateurish, ...
The treatment of vagrancy in eighteenth-century England has conventionally been seen as amateurish, ...
Abstract From 1837 the Poor Law Commission sanctioned temporary relief, at workhouses, for poor way...
Before the reformation and the schism of the Catholic Church, it had always been the duty of the Chu...