Reasons for Studying the History of Welfare. Notes at the End of a Research Project on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

Abstract

The contribution sums up a funded project that came to an end in the present year. The project has been focused on forms of welfare before welfare, i.e. public assistance in the medieval and early modern age. The paper lists the starting assumptions, the objectives achieved, the results of the surveys carried out, and the prospects for further development.