Hospitals and charity
Religious culture and civic life in medieval northern Italy
By Sally Mayall Brasher
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Book Information
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-1928-5
- Pages: 224
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Price: £80.00
- Published Date: June 2017
- BIC Category: History, Medieval History, Social & cultural history, History of religion, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, HISTORY / Medieval, Humanities / Social & cultural history, Humanities / History of religion, Humanities / Medieval history
Description
This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Throughout this flourishing urbanised area hundreds of independent semi-religious facilities appeared, offering care for the ill, the poor and pilgrims en route to holy sites in Rome and the eastern Mediterranean. Over three centuries they became mechanisms for the appropriation of civic authority and political influence in the communities they served, and created innovative experiments in healthcare and poor relief which are the precursors to modern social welfare systems.
Will appeal to students and lecturers in medieval, social, religious, and urban history and includes a detailed appendix that will assist researchers in the field.
Contents
Introduction
1 Hospitals and charity: history and context
2 The foundation of hospitals
3 Hospital management
4 Internal life of the hospital
5 Jurisdictional disputes
6 Reform and consolidation
Conclusion
Index
Author
Sally Mayall Brasher is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at Shepherd University
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