caa a22 4500 388053364 CHVBK 20180307125059.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3679291 doi S0080440100011087 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3679291 Hufton Olwen The Widow's Mite and Other Strategies: Funding the Catholic Reformation The Prothero Lecture [Elektronische Daten] [Olwen Hufton] It is perhaps more usual for the giver of the Prothero lecture to choose a subject which has been a part of his intellectual baggage for a long time. In contrast, what I am about to offer falls more honesdy into the category of work in progress. I am presendy at a very preliminary stage in a project that may both take me a long time and lead me up many alleyways. I am concerned to understand how the Catholic Reform of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was funded. In the term ‘Cadiolic Reform' are included charitable and educative initiatives, the funding of missions, the conversion of die heathen, the expansion of religious orders, die provision of books and images (biblia pauperurm) to improve and elevate the minds of the simple into mysteries they could not otherwise conceptualise, and die erection and furnishing of new churches. I would argue that taken as a package this funding process, about which I will be presently more specific, represents one of the largest private money-raising processes ever undertaken. It has, perhaps, a particular interest today when attempts are being made to reinvigorate die spirit of private philanthropy and to dismande or cause to wither away public commitment to assistance or subsidy. Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1998 Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Cambridge University Press 8(1998-12), 117-137 0080-4401 8<117 1998 8 RHT https://doi.org/10.2307/3679291 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3679291 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hufton Olwen NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Cambridge University Press 8(1998-12), 117-137 0080-4401 8<117 1998 8 RHT CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge