This examines the effects of the Counter- Reformation on health care and poor relief in Southern Catholic Europe in the period between 1540 and 1700.

The role of religion was of paramount importance in the change of attitudes and approaches to health care and charity which took place in the centuries followin

Women have long been crucial to the provision of medical services, both in the treatment of sickness and in maintaining health. In this study, Susan Broomhall s

Spiritual ideals in early modern Europe shaped political and social poor relief structures just as much as rationalization and effective administration colored

Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helpe