Hospitals in communities of the late medieval Rhineland : houses of God, places for the sick / Lucy C. Barnhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnhouse, Lucy C., author.

Series:

Premodern health, disease and disability ; 9.

Premodern health, disease, and disability ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitals, Medieval--Germany--Rhineland--History.

Hospitals, Medieval.

Hospitals, Medieval--Germany--Rhineland.

Germany--Rhineland.

Genre:

History

Informational works.

Physical Description:

250 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-248) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Barnhouse, Lucy C. Hospitals in communities of the late medieval Rhineland.

ISBN:

9789463720243

9463720243

OCLC:

1353779070

Publisher Number:

9789463720243

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