Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli's Zurich

by Lee Palmer Wandel

Book Overview

In this elegantly written book, Lee Wandel discusses the relationship between the reform of poor relief and the Protestant Reformation in early sixteenth-century Zurich. In the introduction she traces the various ways that poverty has been evaluated, and its social and religious connotations, up to the sixteenth century. After providing a portrait of sixteenth-century Zurich, the author goes on to explore the discussion of the poor in various media...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521522544
• ISBN13: 9780521522540
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"