Concerning the Relief of the Poor; or, Concerning Human Need

Name: Concerning the Relief of the Poor; or, Concerning Human Need
Author: Juan Luis Vives

A Letter Addressed to the Senate of Bruges

by Juan Luis Vives · 1917

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Letter addressed to the Senate of Bruges by Juan-Luis Vives on January 6, 1526. Vives' ideas on the relief of the poor from a single integrated system based on the various practices already in use in northern Europe foreshadowed the English Poor Laws of 1601 and the later laws of the New World.

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