
Conspicuous charity and agrarian capitalism : rural poor relief in Western Flanders c. 1700
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- Thijs Lambrecht (UGent) and Anne Winter
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- Abstract
- This article looks at the impact of economic and demographic structures on variations in rural poor relief in early modern Flanders by analysing empirical data at parish level. By combining data on poor relief income and expenses as well as on relief recipients from a survey from 1700 with data on population and land taxes, we demonstrate a close connection between agrarian relations of production and poor relief practices. Together they show how local poor relief practices translated spatially into regional patterns, which in turn were tied into both different agricultural modes of production and distinct social and cultural repertoires of elite representation and distribution.
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- SOCIAL-POLICY, WELFARE-STATE, LABOR-MARKET, ENGLAND, ECONOMIES, EXCHANGE, PARISH, RISE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01JXCAB15QD563BD7XTCSY5Y65
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- Lambrecht, Thijs, and Anne Winter. “Conspicuous Charity and Agrarian Capitalism : Rural Poor Relief in Western Flanders c. 1700.” RURAL HISTORY-ECONOMY SOCIETY CULTURE, 2025, pp. 1–21, doi:10.1017/s0956793325000056.
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- Lambrecht, T., & Winter, A. (2025). Conspicuous charity and agrarian capitalism : rural poor relief in Western Flanders c. 1700. RURAL HISTORY-ECONOMY SOCIETY CULTURE, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956793325000056
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- Lambrecht, Thijs, and Anne Winter. 2025. “Conspicuous Charity and Agrarian Capitalism : Rural Poor Relief in Western Flanders c. 1700.” RURAL HISTORY-ECONOMY SOCIETY CULTURE, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956793325000056.
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- Lambrecht, Thijs, and Anne Winter. 2025. “Conspicuous Charity and Agrarian Capitalism : Rural Poor Relief in Western Flanders c. 1700.” RURAL HISTORY-ECONOMY SOCIETY CULTURE: 1–21. doi:10.1017/s0956793325000056.
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- 1.Lambrecht T, Winter A. Conspicuous charity and agrarian capitalism : rural poor relief in Western Flanders c. 1700. RURAL HISTORY-ECONOMY SOCIETY CULTURE. 2025;1–21.
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- [1]T. Lambrecht and A. Winter, “Conspicuous charity and agrarian capitalism : rural poor relief in Western Flanders c. 1700,” RURAL HISTORY-ECONOMY SOCIETY CULTURE, pp. 1–21, 2025.
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