Hanging with History
Hanging with History
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225. Early Modern Poverty, Part 4
We left last episode with the policy response of Venice, Ypres, Rouen and Grenoble to first the 1527-1531 famine and later structural response. Today, we’ll look at Lyons, Valladolid and England. It’s not easy, it never ...
224. Early Modern Poverty Part 3
We are summarizing the problem circa 1525, before we get into the pan-European, well, Western European, solutions to the problem, driven by the Humanists.We have a simultaneous admiration and horror towards poverty. The warmth stem...
223 Early Modern Poverty; The Medieval Roots
Last episode we had the emotional episode about the sufferings of paupers in 16th century Italy. So we are now done.. with autophagy, cannibalism, dung eating, baker murdering, and all that.We are now moving on to a European wide r...
222. Early Modern Poverty, the Worst of it.
Quoting Dante:“The disease of the starving, I mean hunger, is a pitiable affliction. Of human calamities hunger is certainly supreme. It brings about the cruelest end of all deaths. Hunger is a disease that torments with slow...