Publication details
Postrk jako nástroj chudinské péče
| Title in English | Escorted return home as a tool of the care of the poor |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Escorted return home (der Schub) was an integral part of the emerging centralized care of the poor and of those in need in the 18th and 19th centuries. The study is an attempt of analysis of this rather neglected phenomenon of modern history in the context of social and legal situation in society, population policy, crime level, and role of the Church. In the introductory chapter the phenomenon of poverty is discussed as well as the contemporary debate on the care of the poor in the work of enlightened philosophers, such as Johann Gottlob von Justi, Josef von Sonnenfels and Lodovico Antonio Muratori, whose ideas are complemented with sharp criticism of the then situation by Johann Pezzl. Due to the large scope of the study the analysis of legal regulation related to escorted return home is limited to the general and problematic issues and to the examination of some particular practical cases. The author concentrates on the everyday practice of escorted return home as illustrated by means of two representative cases: the escape from escorted return and is subsequent thorough investigation, and the case of a "notorious returnee", a shepherds daughter from a small Moravian village in Znojmo District. Certainly, escorted return was an instrument of repression; nevertheless, in the then context of the care of the poor it can also be viewed as a negative complement of the generally positive approach to the care of the poor. |