Do Good Unto All

Timothy G. Fehler is Professor of Early Modern History at Furman UniversityJared B. Thomley is an independent researcher, and received his PhD from the University of Aberdeen

• Introduction: Beyond poor relief: defining, implementing, and experiencing charity – Timothy G. Fehler and Jared B. ThomleyPart I Defining charity 1 Domingo de Soto and itinerant poverty: a mobile concept – Beatriz E. Salamanca2 No greater act of mercy: ‘Cellites’ and the ars moriendi in the fifteenth century – Abigail J. Hartman 3 Charity’s assurance: exhortation and election in seventeenth-century Scotland – Jared B. Thomley Part II Implementing charity 4 Legislation and poor relief: Bugenhagen and the Reformation in Braunschweig – Esther Chung-Kim 5 ‘Under the guise of Christian generosity’: Anabaptist responses to poverty in Reformed Zurich, 1600-1650 – David Y. Neufeld 6 Theatrical charity in the early modern Spanish world – Rachael Ball 7 ‘Especially unto those of the household of faith’: Menso Alting, discipline, and community in Emden’s social welfare – Timothy G. Fehler Part III Experiencing charity8 Household and hospital: negotiating social welfare and social discipline in Reformation Geneva – Kristen C. Howard 9 The Marillac family as charitable benefactors: family strategy and the rhetoric of poor relief in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France – Edward J. Gray 10 The pilgrim as temporary pauper: the changing landscape of hospitality on the Camino de Santiago, 1550–1750 – Elizabeth Tingle 11 Prostitution, repentance, and civic welfare in Renaissance Florence – Gillian JackIndex