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Focusing on the Höchstetter family, this study explores their role as merchant-manufacturers and financiers in Augsburg during the late-fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It provides insight into the broader economic and social history of early modern Europe, emphasizing themes of failure and resilience in a transformative period.

This book examines the complex interrelationship between charity, confession, and capital in the orphanages of Augsburg, one of early modern Europe's great manufacturing and mercantile centers. The product of monumental, original research, if offers a thorough-going revision of current historical scholarship on poor relief, social discipline, organization building, and emergent capitalism.