Medieval Poor Law: a sketch of canonical theory and its application in England by Brian Tierney
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Overview: In this stimulating book Brian Tierney has added nearly five centuries to the documented history of the social services. He has erected a new bench mark for social workers and students of the social sciences to use in measuring and appraising the development of public assistance.
This book is an expansion and enrichment of four lectures delivered in January, 1956, at the School of Social Welfare of the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Tierney, an authority on ecclesiastical jurisprudence, has here brought together from a variety of materials the significant concepts and principles upon which the Middle Ages drew in dealing with the problem of poverty and the relief of need. This work has involved not only the study of the Decretum of Gratian—a compilation of papal decrees, canons of Church councils, and commentaries and opinions of the Church Fathers—first issued in 1140, but also the study of the commentaries of later canonists and the great corpus of documents concerning the Church’s legislation, actions, and attitudes toward the evolution of a system of public assistance.
As Professor Tierney explains, the Church was a government, paralleling the secular government. The Church made laws, enforced and administered them, levied taxes, maintained courts, and was the essential legal authority in many areas of life. Indeed, in
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studying the history of social services we can now begin with the twelfth century instead of with the famous poor law of 1601, in the forty-third year of the reign of Elizabeth I.
The framework of discussion and argument within which Professor Tierney writes will be familiar to medievalists it will be less so
Genre: History, Sociology
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