Bureaux des pauvres et confréries de charité en Champagne méridionale (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

Georges Viard

Histoire, économie & société, 1991, vol. 10, issue 3, 317-330

Abstract: [fre] Résumé Les guerres et les crises ont entraîné le développement des institutions charitables. Les cadres traditionnels, hérités des siècles antérieurs, ont été largement utilisés, mais renouvelés par un esprit nouveau, lié à la réforme catholique. Conçu toujours comme un acte de foi et une assurance pour le salut, le geste charitable s'accompagne désormais d'une volonté missionnaire. Ceci entraîne quelques questions essentielles : le tri des «bons» pauvres, le rôle de l'Etat soucieux du maintien de l'ordre public, la place des laïques dans les institutions d'Église. [eng] Abstract Various wars and crises brought about a development of charitable institutions. Traditional setups, inherited from previous centuries, were widely used, but were penetrated with a new spirit, which was linked to the catholic reformation. Still thought of as a way of living one's faith and of gaining salvation, acts of charity were henceforth coupled with a missionary spirit. This raised few fundamental questions : How should the «deserving» poor be sorted out ? What part should a State preoccupied witth public order play ? How far should laymen be integrated to Church institutions ?

Date: 1991
Note: DOI:10.3406/hes.1991.1603
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