Social Support Systems in Rural Italy : The Modern Age Regional States of the Northern Peninsula

1. Between formality and informality: aiding strategies for the needy. The social support systems in Northern Italy -- 2. Between social support and establishment of social identities: the system of giving in the diocese of Tortona in the XVIII century -- 3. Social support systems in medieval Piedmont: The farming system of the hospital Sant’Andrea di Vercelli -- 4. Organising charity. Social support structures in the Genoese Domain during the Modern age -- 5. The ritual capital. Supporting economy in Spanish Lombardy countryside -- 6. Social support systems in imperial fiefs -- 7. Rural microcredit in the sharecropping northern provinces of the papal states (XVI-XIX cent.) -- 8. Instruments and strategies of the social support system in the Brescia rural area during the XVIII century -- 9. Charity, healthcare and brotherhoods. Cases from the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance period -- 10. At a distance. Forms of social support in Friuli during the Modern age -- 11. Collective charities in the rural communities of Trentino (XVII-XVIII centuries) -- 12. The role of Italian parishes in the Modern age “systems of giving”.