1st Edition
Philanthropy in England, 1480 - 1660 A study of the Changing Patterns of English Social Aspirations
By W.K. Jordan
Copyright 2007
412 Pages
by
Routledge
412 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study documents a momentous shift which occurred in men's aspirations for their society in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The author has examined gifts and bequests left for charitable causes over a period of nearly two centuries. in ten English counties, in order to assess the changing pattern of social aspirations and observe the different 'velocities of change'... Read more
I: The Conception; II: The Method; III: The Need; IV: The Mechanisms; V: Law and Reality; VI: The Impulse; VII: The Achievement
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W. K. Jordan
