Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland /
Barnhouse, Lucy
Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland / Lucy Barnhouse. - 1 online resource (250 p.) - Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability ; 9 .
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Houses of God -- 2 Civic Hospitals in the City and Archdiocese of Mainz -- 3 Mainz’s Hospital Sisters and the Rights of Religious Women -- 4 Leprosaria and the Leprous: Legal Status and Social Ties -- 5 “For all miserable persons”: Small and Extra-Urban Hospitals -- 6 Hospitals and their Networks: Recreating Relationships -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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From the mid-twelfth century onwards, the development of European hospitals was shaped by their claim to the legal status of religious institutions, with its attendant privileges and responsibilities. The questions of whom hospitals should serve and why they should do so have recurred — and been invested with moral weight — in successive centuries, though similarities between medieval and modern debates on the subject have often been overlooked. Hospitals’ legal status as religious institutions could be tendentious and therefore had to be vigorously defended in order to protect hospitals’ resources. This status could also, however, be invoked to impose limits on who could serve in and be served by hospitals. As recent scholarship demonstrates, disputes over whom hospitals should serve, and how, find parallels in other periods of history and current debates.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789048552238
10.1515/9789048552238 doi
Early Modern Studies.
Health and Medicine.
History, Art History, and Archaeology.
Sociology and Social History.
HISTORY / Europe / France.
medieval hospitals, canon law, history of leprosy, urban health.
362.110943430902
Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland / Lucy Barnhouse. - 1 online resource (250 p.) - Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability ; 9 .
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Houses of God -- 2 Civic Hospitals in the City and Archdiocese of Mainz -- 3 Mainz’s Hospital Sisters and the Rights of Religious Women -- 4 Leprosaria and the Leprous: Legal Status and Social Ties -- 5 “For all miserable persons”: Small and Extra-Urban Hospitals -- 6 Hospitals and their Networks: Recreating Relationships -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
From the mid-twelfth century onwards, the development of European hospitals was shaped by their claim to the legal status of religious institutions, with its attendant privileges and responsibilities. The questions of whom hospitals should serve and why they should do so have recurred — and been invested with moral weight — in successive centuries, though similarities between medieval and modern debates on the subject have often been overlooked. Hospitals’ legal status as religious institutions could be tendentious and therefore had to be vigorously defended in order to protect hospitals’ resources. This status could also, however, be invoked to impose limits on who could serve in and be served by hospitals. As recent scholarship demonstrates, disputes over whom hospitals should serve, and how, find parallels in other periods of history and current debates.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789048552238
10.1515/9789048552238 doi
Early Modern Studies.
Health and Medicine.
History, Art History, and Archaeology.
Sociology and Social History.
HISTORY / Europe / France.
medieval hospitals, canon law, history of leprosy, urban health.
362.110943430902