Edited papers from an international conference at the University of Trier, 2003.

This study provides an accessible and authoritative account of poverty and deviance during the early modern period, informed by those perspectives on the role o

Explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives.

In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrializat

This volume looks at how northern European governments of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries coped with the needs of the poor, whilst balancing any new mea