Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The counter-reformation and welfare provision in southern Europe / Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham -- 2. The counter-reformation, medical care and poor relief / Brian Pullan -- 3. Counter-reformation, economic decline, and the delayed impact of the medical revolution in Catholic Europe, 1550-1750 / Jonathan Israel -- 4. Charity and welfare in early modern Tuscany / John Henderson -- 5. 'Ad una sancta perfettione' : health care and poor relief in the republic of Venice in the era of the counter-reformation / Richard Palmer -- 6. 'A fountain for the thirsty' and a bank for the pope : charity, conflicts, and medical careers at the Hospital of Santo Spirito in seventeenth-century Rome / Silvia De Renzi -- 7. 'Cradle of saints and useful institutions' : health care and poor relief in the kingdom of Naples / David Gentilcore -- 8. Poor relief in counter-reformation Castile : an overview / Jon Arrizabalaga -- 9. Health care and poor relief in the crown of Aragon María Luz López Terrada -- 10. Poor relief in counter-reformation Portugal : the case of the Misericórdias / Isabel M.R. Mendes Drumond Braga -- 11. Perspectives on poor relief, health care and the counter-reformation in France / Colin Jones -- 12. Health care and poor relief in regional southern France in the counter-reformation / Martin Dinges -- 13. Health care and poverty relief in counter-reformation Catholic Germany / Bernd Roeck.

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