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The role of the hospital in medieval England : gift-giving and the spiritual economy.
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ISBN: 1851827943 Year: 2005 Publisher: Dublin Four courts press


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Care and custody of the Mentally ill, incompetent, and disabled in Medieval England
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ISBN: 9782503540399 Year: 2013 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

Epidemics and ideas : essays on the historical perception of pestilence
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ISBN: 052155831X 052140276X 0511563647 Year: 1992 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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From plague to AIDS, epidemics have been the most spectacular diseases to afflict human societies. This volume examines the way in which these great crises have influenced ideas, how they have helped to shape theological, political and social thought, and how they have been interpreted and understood in the intellectual context of their time.

The medieval hospital and medical pratice
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ISBN: 9780754651109 Year: 2007 Volume: 3 Publisher: Aldershot [etc.] Ashgate

French medical culture in the nineteenth century
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ISBN: 9051835914 Year: 1994 Publisher: Amsterdam Rodopi

Charity, self-interest and welfare in the English past
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ISBN: 1857285360 Year: 1996 Publisher: London UCL Press


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Iconology of Charity : medieval legends of Saint Elizabeth in Central Europe
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ISBN: 9042941715 9789042941717 9789042941724 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters

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The images analyzed in this book give each viewer the possibility to interact with Saint Elizabeth?s unique spiritual way, which was nurtured by various sources, including moments of spontaneous inspiration. The religious leaders who went on to imagine and commission a visual image understood the enormous potential associated with the religious zeal of the extraordinary noble lady as a shining example offering new paths towards Christian charity. The images represent an important testimony of what happened, or rather how the artist or the patron imagined events from the saintþs life. Elizabeth?s extraordinary individual charity has been a source of inspiration to many of her admirers, but the artists and their patrons must have experienced and considered the needs and desires which characterized their period and the communities they were serving. There has been a significant interval between the over-temporal needs or values and contingent historical situations with changing constellations of interests, medial landscapes and rules of political game. The medieval cult of saint Elizabeth awakened the interest of the most influential political figures of the time. Their individual dialogues with the saint connected resonant spiritual messages, which were valid for the duration of any individual?s lifespan, with transient concerns about political struggles, military fights, or materialistic considerations. As a result, the images are multilayered products reflecting human needs and longings on several levels. This book offers a minuscule testimony from this endless flux of feelings, observations and meditations in an effort to broaden slightly the limited range of human experience.


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Poor relief in England, 1350-1600
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ISBN: 9781107015081 9781139057547 9781107634534 9781139206532 1139206532 9781139204958 1139204955 1139057545 1280484616 9781280484612 1107015081 9781139203555 1107230098 1139199838 9786613579591 1139205749 113920355X 1139202146 1107634539 9781139199834 9781139202145 6613579599 9781107230095 9781139205740 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Between the mid-fourteenth century and the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, English poor relief moved toward a more coherent and comprehensive network of support. Marjorie McIntosh's study, the first to trace developments across that time span, focuses on three types of assistance: licensed begging and the solicitation of charitable alms; hospitals and almshouses for the bedridden and elderly; and the aid given by parishes. It explores changing conceptions of poverty and charity and altered roles for the church, state and private organizations in the provision of relief. The study highlights the creativity of local people in responding to poverty, cooperation between national levels of government, the problems of fraud and negligence, and mounting concern with proper supervision and accounting. This ground-breaking work challenges existing accounts of the Poor Laws, showing that they addressed problems with forms of aid already in use rather than creating a new system of relief.


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