Urban Hospitality

Heal, Felicity

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“…As Protestants moved from good works as a model for salvation to one of grace through faith alone, there was a shift in the spiritual meaning of charitable care. 63 Reformers saw themselves as stripping down the ornate hierarchies of Catholicism to return to a basic Christian fellowship, one that emphasized the communal well-being of the nation. As Sir Thomas Smith describes in his Discourse of the Common Weal of this Realm of England (1581):…”

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Poor women and parish public health in sixteenth‐century London

Munkhoff

2014

Renaissance Studies

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While there is much excellent scholarship on the topics of poor relief and plague management in England, less attention has been paid to how they function together, especially given that they were housed in the same administrative unit of the parish. This article focuses on one key area of overlap: the medical labour performed by poor women as nurses or ‘keepers’ for their neighbours and as ‘searchers’ for epidemiological purposes in the period 1560–1600. Examining primarily parish records, such as churchwardens’ account books and vestry minutes, I make a three‐fold argument: first, women's labour became systematized as part of charitable parish care, as keeping duties rose to the level of visible economic exchange; second, the labour of keeping provided the foundation for the development of women's roles as plague searchers; and third, together those roles indicate a deliberate structure implemented in London to confront issues of public health (poverty, vagrancy, epidemics) that is worth considering in its own right.

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Poor women and parish public health in sixteenth‐century London

Munkhoff

2014

Renaissance Studies

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“…16 As endorsed by a range of cultural texts from the period, hospitality linked house, neighbors, tenants, and poor in an exchange that traded in assets less tangible than money, such as honor, loyalty, and alliance. 17 To be successful in the roles of host or guest required a display of virtue, exemplified through the domestic establishment and public acknowledgment of the demands of the honor code, and a reaffirmation of hierarchy. 18 This process was accompanied by powerful messages about status, reputation, and generosity.…”

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Mrs. Hobart's Routs

2014

Huntington Library Quarterly

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“…This was expressed by gift giving which became an essential part of the visit of high-ranking guests'. 16 The first visit of the prince was in itself considered as a gift. This becomes clear when the words of welcome by the town administrations are examined.…”

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Princely entries and gift exchange in the Burgundian Low Countries: a crucial link in late medieval political culture

Damen

2007

Journal of Medieval History

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This article treats the first entry of a new prince as the start of a series of exchanges between the prince and his subjects. On the occasion of an entry, gifts in all kind of forms, subsistence, luxury and symbolic goods, were exchanged with the intention of establishing a bond between the new ruler and the subjects. These gifts were not standardised in the Burgundian Low Countries. There was a wide range of gifts, from wine to silverware and from money to horses. Some gifts can be linked to the princely right of lodging in places he passed on his itinerary, whereas others refer to marks of honour offered by the host. However, not all gifts were given spontaneously, but were the result of a negotiating process between the town and the prince's officials on the one hand and between the different towns of a principality on the other. Those officials benefited as well from entry gifts that trickled down to lower levels in the official hierarchy. Therefore, the gifts can be considered as personalised items in a bigger process of exchange and as a confirmation of the outcome of political negotiations.

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Urban Hospitality

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Poor women and parish public health in sixteenth‐century London

Poor women and parish public health in sixteenth‐century London

Mrs. Hobart's Routs

Princely entries and gift exchange in the Burgundian Low Countries: a crucial link in late medieval political culture

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