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This pamphlet examines recent research into the poor laws of Tudor and Stuart England. Dr Beier asks the question `who were the poor?¿ and in answering it places the `problem of the poor¿ in its historical context, examining it in relation to medieval provisions for dealing with poverty. He shows how far legislation was influenced by economic changes, by ideas about poverty and by the interests of the legislators themselves. Dr Beier evaluates...

This book argues that social concepts most definitely existed in late medieval and early modern England, laying the foundations for modern models of society. It analyzes social paradigms and how they changed in the period. The middle ages imagined society as a body whose members were interdependent, unchanging, hierarchical, and which rejected wealth and embraced poverty. Early modern thinkers challenged the body theory, developing a social hu...

The connections among vagabondage and human labor, mobility, status, and behavior have placed vagrancy at the crossroads of a multitude of political, social, and economic processes. Vagrancy and homelessness have been used to examine a vast array of phenomena, from the migration of labor to socital and governmental responses to poverty through charity, welfare, and prosecution. "Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Pers...

Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.

This pamphlet examines recent research into the poor laws of Tudor and Stuart England. Dr Beier asks the question who were the poor and in answering it places the problem of the poor in its historical context, examining it in relation to medieval provisions for dealing with poverty. He shows how far legislation was influenced by economic changes, by ideas about poverty and by the interests of the legislators themselves. Dr Beier evaluates the ...