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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnhouse, Lucy C., author.

Series:

Premodern health, disease and disability.

Premodern health, disease and disability

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitals--Germany--History--To 1500.

Hospitals.

Germany--History--To 1517.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Feb 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-69749-6

1-04-079006-2

90-485-5223-0

9781003697497

OCLC:

1543500230