The Economics of Providence
Management, Finances and Patrimony of Religious Orders and Congregations in Europe, 1773-ca. 1930
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 16. January 2013
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Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-90-5867-915-4 (ISBN)
Description
The wealth and patrimony of religious institutes
During the French Revolution almost all monasteries and abbeys were suppressed and their possessions seized. Yet after the French Revolution many religious institutes were very successful in re-establishing themselves, sometimes accumulating large patrimonies, against the background of often hostile political forces.
This book deals with the question of how the religious orders and congregations rebuilt their patrimony, a necessary prerequisite for the growth of the number of religious, educational and charitable services.
The authors discuss the (real or supposed) wealth, the financial structures, and the management and juridical foundations of the orders and congregations in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Ireland, and the United Kingdom from the late eighteenth century to the 1930s.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Contributors
B. Bodinier (Universite de Rouen), M. de Fatima Brandao (Universidade do Porto), M. Casta (Universite de Picardie Jules Verne), J. De Maeyer (kadoc - University of Leuven), X. Dusausoit (Centre Scolaire du Sacre-Coeur de Jette), J. Frith (capa International Education, London), G. Gregorini (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia), J. Koppen (VSAD Karel Cuypers), M. Luddy (University of Warwick), C. Mangion (Birkbeck, University of London), J. Oliveira (Universidade do Porto), P.M. Perluss (Universite Pierre Mendes France Grenoble), R. L. Philippart (ucl et Directeur de l'Office National du Tourisme du Grand-Duche de Luxembourg), G. Rocca (Dizionario Degli Istituti di Perfezione), B. Truchet (Professeur retraitee), J. Tyssens (VUB), M. Van Dijck (Flanders Heritage and UHasselt) and Fco. J. Fernandez Roca (Pablo de Olavide University de Sevilla).
During the French Revolution almost all monasteries and abbeys were suppressed and their possessions seized. Yet after the French Revolution many religious institutes were very successful in re-establishing themselves, sometimes accumulating large patrimonies, against the background of often hostile political forces.
This book deals with the question of how the religious orders and congregations rebuilt their patrimony, a necessary prerequisite for the growth of the number of religious, educational and charitable services.
The authors discuss the (real or supposed) wealth, the financial structures, and the management and juridical foundations of the orders and congregations in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Ireland, and the United Kingdom from the late eighteenth century to the 1930s.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Contributors
B. Bodinier (Universite de Rouen), M. de Fatima Brandao (Universidade do Porto), M. Casta (Universite de Picardie Jules Verne), J. De Maeyer (kadoc - University of Leuven), X. Dusausoit (Centre Scolaire du Sacre-Coeur de Jette), J. Frith (capa International Education, London), G. Gregorini (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia), J. Koppen (VSAD Karel Cuypers), M. Luddy (University of Warwick), C. Mangion (Birkbeck, University of London), J. Oliveira (Universidade do Porto), P.M. Perluss (Universite Pierre Mendes France Grenoble), R. L. Philippart (ucl et Directeur de l'Office National du Tourisme du Grand-Duche de Luxembourg), G. Rocca (Dizionario Degli Istituti di Perfezione), B. Truchet (Professeur retraitee), J. Tyssens (VUB), M. Van Dijck (Flanders Heritage and UHasselt) and Fco. J. Fernandez Roca (Pablo de Olavide University de Sevilla).
Reviews / Votes
De grande qualite et soigneusement edite, l'ouvrage sous recension porte a la connaissance du public le produit de recherches recentes et novatrices. II est de nature a susciter de nouvelles investigations du meme type. C'est pourquoi il merite de retenir l'attention des specialistes de l'histoire religieuse, mais aussi celle de chercheurs interesses par la gestion patrimoniale.Paul WYNANTS, Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 2013/4 The individual essays testify to the specific expertise of their authors (who provide very useful and rich bibliographies at the end of each chapter), and they achieve what is often lacking from an edited collection: a sense of unity. Taken as a whole, they paint a detailed picture of religious Orders and Congregations which, phoenix-like, managed to rebuild themselves from the ashes of their near destruction; these stories of economic and social success are all the more edifying since they emerge from a context of heightened state anticlericalism and legal impediments.
Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Aix-Marseille Universite, Recusant History 32, 1 (May 2014) In veel landen verloren kloosterordes en congregaties tijdens de late achttiende en vroege negentiende eeuw al hun bezittingen, al dan niet als gevolg van Verlichting en Franse Revolutie. Deze bundel vraagt zich af hoe kerkelijke instellingen zich van die aderlating herstelden en betreedt daarmee een belangwekkend, maar weinig gekend terrein, namelijk de economische geschiedenis van ordes en congregaties. Van Dijck en De Maeyer leiden de problematiek in, waarna veertien auteurs bijdragen leveren over liefst acht Europese landen.
BMGN - LCHR, Vol 128 (2013)
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01
Language
English
Place of publication
Leuven
Belgium
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Height: 236 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
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Maarten Van Dijck | Jan De Maeyer | Jeffrey Tyssens
The Economics of Providence / L'économie de la providence
Management, Finances and Patrimony of Religious Orders and Congregations in Europe, 1773 - ca. 1930 / Gestion, finances et patrimoine des ordres et congregations en Europe, 1773 - ca. 1930
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Maarten Van Dijck is Researcher at the Flemish Heritage Agency and Guest Lecturer at the University of Hasselt. Jan De Maeyer is professor emeritus of contemporary church history at KU Leuven and honorary director of KADOC-KU Leuven. His research focuses on political and social Catholicism, material Christianity, and the development of religious institutions and congregations. Jeffrey Tyssens is Lecturer in Political History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Jimmy Koppen is Researcher at the Freethinking Study, Archive and Documentation Centre 'Karel Cuypers'.
Content
CONTENTS / TABLE DES MATIa?RES
Maarten Van Dijck & Jan De Maeyer
The Economics of Providence. An Introduction to the Economic History of Religious Orders and Congregations, 1773-1930
L'economie de la providence. Introduction a l'histoire economique des ordres et congregations, 1773-1930
Preston Martin Perluss
Monastic Landed Wealth in Late-Eighteenth-Century Paris.
Principal Traits and Major Issues
Bernard Bodinier
De la Revolution a la separation de l'Eglise et de l'Etat.
Le sort des abbayes normandes
Bernadette Truchet
Une reconstitution paradoxale et strategique.
L'enquete de 1900 sur le patrimoine foncier des ordres et congregations en France : l'exemple de Lyon
Robert L. Philippart
Luxembourg 1789 - 1914 : entre ciel et terre.
Le management habile des ordres et congregations
Michel Casta
Le patrimoine fragile des benedictines d'Erbalunga, 1862-1932
Maarten Van Dijck
From Workhouse to Convent.
The Sisters of Saint Vincent and Public Charity in Eeklo, 1830-1900
Joy Frith
Accounting for Souls.
Anglican Sisters and the Economies of Moral Reform in Victorian England
Carmen M. Mangion
Developing Alliances.
Faith, Philanthropy and Fundraising in Late-Nineteenth-Century St Helens
Maria Luddy
'Possessed of Fine Properties'.
Power, Authority and the Funding of Convents in Ireland, 1780-1900
Xavier Dusausoit
Les jesuites et l'argent. Fondation et gestion de cinq colleges jesuites
belges au XIXe siecle (Alost, Gand, Bruxelles, Mons et Verviers)
Jose Oliveira & Maria de Fatima Brandao
Account Books and the Use of Accounting in the Monastery
of Arouca, 1786-1825
Giancarlo Rocca
L'economie des instituts religieux italiens de 1861 a 1929.
Donnees pour une recherche
Giovanni Gregorini
The Organization and Economics of Religious Congregations
in Northern Italy, 1861-1929
F. Javier Fernandez Roca
Management Strategies of Ecclesiastical Patrimonies in Spain, 1900-1936
Abbreviations / Abreviations
Authors /Auteurs
Colophon
Maarten Van Dijck & Jan De Maeyer
The Economics of Providence. An Introduction to the Economic History of Religious Orders and Congregations, 1773-1930
L'economie de la providence. Introduction a l'histoire economique des ordres et congregations, 1773-1930
Preston Martin Perluss
Monastic Landed Wealth in Late-Eighteenth-Century Paris.
Principal Traits and Major Issues
Bernard Bodinier
De la Revolution a la separation de l'Eglise et de l'Etat.
Le sort des abbayes normandes
Bernadette Truchet
Une reconstitution paradoxale et strategique.
L'enquete de 1900 sur le patrimoine foncier des ordres et congregations en France : l'exemple de Lyon
Robert L. Philippart
Luxembourg 1789 - 1914 : entre ciel et terre.
Le management habile des ordres et congregations
Michel Casta
Le patrimoine fragile des benedictines d'Erbalunga, 1862-1932
Maarten Van Dijck
From Workhouse to Convent.
The Sisters of Saint Vincent and Public Charity in Eeklo, 1830-1900
Joy Frith
Accounting for Souls.
Anglican Sisters and the Economies of Moral Reform in Victorian England
Carmen M. Mangion
Developing Alliances.
Faith, Philanthropy and Fundraising in Late-Nineteenth-Century St Helens
Maria Luddy
'Possessed of Fine Properties'.
Power, Authority and the Funding of Convents in Ireland, 1780-1900
Xavier Dusausoit
Les jesuites et l'argent. Fondation et gestion de cinq colleges jesuites
belges au XIXe siecle (Alost, Gand, Bruxelles, Mons et Verviers)
Jose Oliveira & Maria de Fatima Brandao
Account Books and the Use of Accounting in the Monastery
of Arouca, 1786-1825
Giancarlo Rocca
L'economie des instituts religieux italiens de 1861 a 1929.
Donnees pour une recherche
Giovanni Gregorini
The Organization and Economics of Religious Congregations
in Northern Italy, 1861-1929
F. Javier Fernandez Roca
Management Strategies of Ecclesiastical Patrimonies in Spain, 1900-1936
Abbreviations / Abreviations
Authors /Auteurs
Colophon