Poor relief systems in rural Italy: the territory of the diocese of Tortona in the eighteenth century

Luciano Maffi, Marco Rochini

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Abstract

This article studies the development of poor relief in the rural areas of the diocese of Tortona in the eighteenth century, through the analysis of the parish reports written for the pastoral visits of bishops Giulio Resta and Giuseppe Lodovico Andujar in 1741 and 1743. The reports record the most important assistance activities organised by different social actors: dowries for poor girls; bread, money and clothing to distribute to the poor; but also formal support in the form of hospitals providing shelter and care for pilgrims and the sick; the monti di pietà, which loaned money and the grain stores, which provided essential loans of grain. The diocese of Tortona in the eighteenth century represents a privileged point of view for understanding how the development of poor relief in the ancien régime was influenced by the political and institutional, geographical, landowning and socio-ecomomic context. Here, a complex institutional situation, combined with a diverse geographical and socio-economic context, gave rise to a variety of poor relief systems
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)211-239
Numero di pagine29
RivistaContinuity and Change
Volume2016-XXXI
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2016

Keywords

  • Economic History
  • Nord Italia
  • North Italy
  • Reti di supporto sociale
  • Social support network
  • Storia economica
  • XVIII century
  • XVIII secolo

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