| Autor: |
Ciarán McCabe |
| Rok vydání: |
2018 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland |
| DOI: |
10.3828/liverpool/9781786941572.003.0003 |
| Popis: |
Attempts to measure the extent of beggary and the amount doled out in alms to mendicants was part of a desire among the ‘respectable’ middling classes to understand the ‘problem’ of mendicancy. Merchants and social commentators sought to reduce the financial burden of beggary, and the Poor Law debates of the 1830s devoted much energy to the impact of indiscriminate alms-giving. The casual giving of alms far outweighed the amount subscribed to anti-begging charitable societies, yet the significance placed on the monetary impact of beggary was not shared by all social classes. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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