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In a final chapter on "the Impulse to Charity," Diefendorf depicts the creative contributions of five Parisian women to the charitable works of the early seventeenth-century: Marguerite de Silly, who was no mere aristocratic Lady Bountiful permitting Vincent de Paul to carry out his work, but rather an active collaborator in furthering the work of religious instruction of the poor through the Confraternities of Charity (p. Guilds and confraternities used to sing it in the open market-places. In these spaces she describes how the daily life of the city was led first in terms of commerce and trade, then in terms of power and especially politics, and finally in terms of solidarities such as family, clans, confraternities, and anti-solidarities such as crime, violence, and poverty. |
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