During the 1450’s to 1700’s, there were many poor people around in Europe. There were two main views of the poor in Europe, and those were that poor people were just lazy and didn’t deserve help or that it was a duty to help those in need. Many of the documents we had to examine are from France, but there was one document from England that really stuck out to me. I also believe that a majority of these documents support helping the poor, and what I’m going to focus on in this essay is how these documents emphasize giving to the poor, distinguishing who is really poor, and Add other point here.
