Gender and politics in early modern Europe. English convents in France and the Low Countries. By Claire Walker (Early Modern History, Society and Culture.) Pp. xii+247 incl. 5 tables. Basingstoke–New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003(2). £50. 0 333 75370 4

2004 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-172
Author(s):  
SUSAN WABUDA
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Gender And Politics ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Modern Europe

Giving in early modern history: philanthropy in Amsterdam in the Golden Age

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCO H. D. VAN LEEUWEN
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Modern Europe

ABSTRACTPhilanthropy was enduring in early modern Europe. For centuries local charities gave small sums that helped many people to survive. Such charity can be studied from below, from the persepective of survival strategies, and from above, from the perspective of social control, but it can also be studied as scholars of philanthropic studies do for contemporary societies. This article does the latter. It pays attention to benefactors and benefactions; how many people gave and who were they?; when, where and what did benefactors give, and what were their motives? The article places an in-depth study of Amsterdam from the late sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century in the context of the literature on early modern European philanthropy.

scholarly journals From the Present to the Past The Historical Dynamics of Wealth in Early Modern Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (01) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Katia Béguin
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Asset Accumulation ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Dynamics ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Thomas Piketty

Abstract Historians generally account for the dynamics of asset accumulation and the concentration of wealth in early modern societies by invoking systems of inheritance, matrimonial strategies, political distribution, and market transfers of property. Thomas Piketty emphasizes a more significant factor: higher returns on inherited capital. This article considers the ways in which early modern history might make use of such a hypothesis.

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