The Economics of Providence / L’économie de la providence

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 (Université de Rouen), M. de Fátima Brandão (Universidade do Porto), M. Casta (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), J. De Maeyer (kadoc - University of Leuven), X. Dusausoit (Centre Scolaire du Sacré-Coeur de Jette), J. Frith (capa International Education, London), G. Gregorini (Università 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 (Université Pierre Mendes France Grenoble), R. L. Philippart (ucl et Directeur de l'Office National du Tourisme du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg), G. Rocca (Dizionario Degli Istituti di Perfezione), B. Truchet (Professeur retraitée), J. Tyssens (VUB), M. Van Dijck (Flanders Heritage and UHasselt) and Fco. J. Fernández Roca (Pablo de Olavide University de Sevilla).

"The Economics of Providence / L’économie de la providence" was edited by Maarten Van Dijck, Jan De Maeyer, Jeffrey Tyssens and Jimmy Koppen.

Maarten Van Dijck is hoofddocent aan de afdeling geschiedenis van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. Hij bestudeert stadsgeschiedenis vanuit een langetermijnperspectief en publiceerde over de evolutie van geweld, het maatschappelijke middenveld en sociale ongelijkheid.

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'.

Yes, "The Economics of Providence / L’économie de la providence" is part of the "KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society" series. It's book 11 in the series.

Elena Arigita Maza (Universidad de Granada)
Florian Bock (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
Timothy Brittain‐Catlin (University of Cambridge)
James Chappel (Duke University)
Kim Christiaens (KADOC-KU Leuven)
Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin)
​​​​James Kennedy (Utrecht University)
​​​Franziska Metzger (PH Luzern)
Patrick Pasture (MoSa‐KU Leuven) - chairman
Isabelle Saint‐Martin (EPHE Paris)
Thijl Sunier (VU Amsterdam)
Árpád von Klimó (Catholic University of America)
Veerle De Laet (Leuven University Press)
Peter Heyrman (KADOC-KU Leuven) - secretary

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CONTENTS / TABLE DES MATIàˆRES

Maarten Van Dijck & Jan De Maeyer
The Economics of Providence. An Introduction to the Economic History of Religious Orders and Congregations, 1773-1930
L'économie de la providence. Introduction à l'histoire économique des ordres et congrégations, 1773-1930

Preston Martin Perluss
Monastic Landed Wealth in Late-Eighteenth-Century Paris.
Principal Traits and Major Issues

Bernard Bodinier
De la Révolution à la séparation de l'Église et de l'État.
Le sort des abbayes normandes

Bernadette Truchet
Une reconstitution paradoxale et stratégique.
L'enquête de 1900 sur le patrimoine foncier des ordres et congrégations en France : l'exemple de Lyon

Robert L. Philippart
Luxembourg 1789 - 1914 : entre ciel et terre.
Le management habile des ordres et congrégations

Michel Casta
Le patrimoine fragile des bénédictines 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 jésuites et l'argent. Fondation et gestion de cinq collèges jésuites
belges au XIXe siècle (Alost, Gand, Bruxelles, Mons et Verviers)

José Oliveira & Maria de Fátima Brandão
Account Books and the Use of Accounting in the Monastery
of Arouca, 1786-1825

Giancarlo Rocca
L'économie des instituts religieux italiens de 1861 à 1929.
Données pour une recherche

Giovanni Gregorini
The Organization and Economics of Religious Congregations
in Northern Italy, 1861-1929

F. Javier Fernández Roca
Management Strategies of Ecclesiastical Patrimonies in Spain, 1900-1936

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The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "The Economics of Providence / L’économie de la providence" is 10.11116/9789461661104.