Citations:misericordia

English citations of misericordia

particular charitable institution in Portugal, Spain, and elsewhere

• 1934, The Commonweal - Volume 21, page 144:

  We Americans — could we have a Misericordia? Yes, perhaps —if we leave off the cowl, wear bright colors—and why not ring a bell as we go along, so the neighbors will be sure to see.

• 2005, Review of culture, issues 13-15:

  [page 62:] There were some attempts in the sixteenth century, with the backing of the king, to establish a network of Misericordias throughout the Spanish territories, but the Spanish Misericordias were of a different nature.

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  [page 79:] Most of the Spanish Misericordias only took the name from their counterpart in Portugal but in reality they were more like hospices or places for social regeneration of the poor.

• 2015, Hamish M. Scott, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750, Oxford University Press, USA (→ISBN), page 615:

  Spanish Misericordia groups adapted these Lisbon statutes. France had a similar albeit more loosely organized network of Holy Sacrament confraternities diffused through the nation and into its expanding empire.

• 2005, Jon Arrizabalaga, Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell, Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe, Routledge (→ISBN), page 204:

  ... barriers were transgressed.13 That the exclusion was resented by the minorities is clear from the fact that some elements of those minorities did not abstain from criticising the Misericórdias in a derogatory way.

• 2011, Stefan C. A. Halikowski Smith, Reinterpreting Indian Ocean Worlds: Essays in Honour of Kirti N. Chaudhuri, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (→ISBN), page 323:

  The misericórdias in Asia maintained a close relationship with the crown that was not to be repeated in any other area of the Portuguese empire. In the first place, the Estado da India regularly financed Asian misericórdias.

• 2016, Laurinda Abreu, The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal, Routledge (→ISBN)

  When Manuel I died, in December 1521, there were some 80 misericórdias in Portugal and its overseas territories.24 The greatest density was in the Alentejo on royal lands, from where they gradually spread to lands belonging to the ...

• 2017, Laurinda Abreu, Public Health and Social Reforms in Portugal (1780-1805), Cambridge Scholars Publishing (→ISBN), page 270:

  One of the suggestions he made was to close down the misericórdias in the region that had no hospital and to shift their resources to the one that he managed, which was the second richest of the misericórdias that replied to the survey, ...

• 2020, David Hitchcock, Julia McClure, The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450–1800, Routledge (→ISBN)

  These documents were issued by the monarch and sent to the regional Misericórdias in order to be implemented. In a clear managing strategy, the Crown standardised the Misericórdias' layouts and regulations, promoting their dissemination ...

• 2021, Pedro Lains, A History of Public Banking in Portugal in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Routledge (→ISBN), page 1887:

  Once again, this proposal for keeping funds of the misericórdias in the Caixa followed the French model, where Caisse de dépôts et consignations kept such deposits along with those of the savings banks. The most significant difference ...