1st Edition
Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland
By Lucy Barnhouse
Copyright 2023
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Houses of God, Civic Hospitals in the City and Archdiocese of Mainz, Mainz's Hospital Sisters and the Rights of Religious Women, Leprosaria and the Leprous: Legal Status and Social Ties, For all miserable persons: Small and Extra-Urban Hospitals, Hospitals and their Networks: Recreating Relationships, Conclusion, Bibliography.
Biography
Lucy Barnhouse received her Ph.D. from Fordham University in 2017, and has been Assistant Professor of History at Arkansas State University since Fall 2020, having held visiting positions at the College of Wooster and Wartburg College. She has published on topics including medieval public health, leprosy, and religious women.
