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Poverty, cultures and social order: Compendium of articles

Abstract

In this volume there are 37 articles reporting on a work and personality. The reader who knows J.-P. Gutton will find here the elegance of the character through the elegance of the work. His intellectual concerns led him to work on this suffering humanity of the former regime and his research topics remain very united, rarely so obvious in a collection of articles. The history of society and culture irrigates the volume and the four parts do not include successive curiosity, but constant and parallel work. It is true that J.-P. Gutton was first of all the historian of the poor and hospitals. The aim was to study a considerable part of society in the past! Hearing the voice of the poor is not easy and the ability to make “small” people speak from hospital, judicial or ecclesiastical archives is not easy. J.-P. Gutton is not a religious historian, yet the Church and the openings he speaks of are necessarily met on every page. Rather, it is a historian of social regulations. But it is not so much the repressive side, “body dressing”, the “disciplinamento” that interest it, but the way in which political and judicial structures or the action of prominent voices have allowed society in the 18th centuries to last despite its hesitation between order and disorder. The majority of these articles take Lyon and its region for illustration. But in no way is it a regionalist history: it is a regional anchor for a problem that is still national or European. J.-P. Gutton is an Archive Labor and these articles will serve colleagues who are always familiar with texts for their teaching. He is also an adept of versatility, in the common sense of the word, which means that it must never be confined to too narrow a speciality: looking at the poor is about legislation, taxes, economic vagaries, changes in the church, mentalities, the role of “middle players”, etc. These studies reveal everything that has gradually built modernity in the old society.

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