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“So that they may be able to live and die as good Christians”: The early history of the Nom de Jésus Hospital in Catholic Reformation Paris
(DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 2021-11-16)
The Hôpital de Nom de Jésus was an important establishment associated with Louise de Marillac, Vincent de Paul, and their communities. The Daughters of Charity were responsible for staffing this hospital beginning in1653, ...
A spiritual inheritance? Family spirit, virtue and vocation in the Vies of the Lamoignon dévots
(Oxford University Press, 2020-08-26)
Members of the Parisian robe Lamoignon family were among the most prominent dévots of the French Catholic Reformation. This article explores the family’s religious engagement through six substantial biographies or vies ...
Civil war in El Salvador and the origins of rights-based humanitarianism
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-06-03)
This article traces the global humanitarian sector s late twentieth-century embrace of human rights to the brutal civil conflict in El Salvador in the 1980s. Drawing on evidence from NGOs in three Anglophone states (Britain, ...
Aidland in South Asia: humanitarian crisis and the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-06-07)
This article uses the experiences of expatriate aid workers in South Asia to examine the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s. It begins by outlining the impact of the crisis on the aid sector, before using ...