On assistance to the poor
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Cleveland Public Library - Main Library - Social Sciences DepartmentHT115 .T6 1999On Shelf

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vii, 62 pages ; 23 cm.
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English

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Reprint. Originally published as A Sixteenth Century Urban Report: Chicago : School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, 1971.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-62).
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"'I wish we were able to eliminate poverty completely in this city.' Those words echo a sentiment that could have been written yesterday, but represent the feelings of Juan Luis Vives, a Spanish humanist living in Bruges in 1526. The urban problems of sixteenth-century Bruges seem very familiar to the modern reader: poverty, overcrowding, crime, the problems of the mentally ill, and the issue of the responsibility of government for the care of the poor. Published in 1526, On Assistance to the Poor was Vives's effort to bring forward these questions to the City Council of Bruges, and have them addressed by local government. His distinctive development of a single integrated system out of the several practices already in use in Northern Europe presaged the English Poor Laws of 1601 and later laws in the New World." "This edition, originally published in 1971 with an introduction, translation, and commentary by Alice Tobriner, is a valuable primary source in Renaissance social history."--Jacket.
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In English; translated from the Latin.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Vives, J. L., & Tobriner, A. (1999). On assistance to the poor . University of Toronto Press in association with the Renaissance Society of America.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540 and Alice Tobriner. 1999. On Assistance to the Poor. Toronto: University of Toronto Press in association with the Renaissance Society of America.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540 and Alice Tobriner. On Assistance to the Poor Toronto: University of Toronto Press in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 1999.

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Vives, J. L. and Tobriner, A. (1999). On assistance to the poor. Toronto: University of Toronto Press in association with the Renaissance Society of America.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Vives, Juan Luis, and Alice Tobriner. On Assistance to the Poor University of Toronto Press in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 1999.

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