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"The hospitals of late medieval England defy easy categorization. They were institutions of charity, medical care, and liturgical commemoration. At the same time, hospitals were cultural spaces sponsoring the performance of drama, the composition of medical texts, and the reading of devotional prose and vernacular poetry. Such practices both reflected and connected the disparate groups-regular religious, ill and poor people, well-off retirees-that congregated in hospitals. Nicole Rice's The Medieval Hospital offers the first book-length study of the place of hospitals in English literary history and cultural practice. Rice highlights three English hospitals as porous sites whose practices translated into textual engagements with some of urban society's most pressing concerns: charity, health, devotion, and commerce. Within these institutions, medical compendia treated the alarming bodies of women and religious anthologies translated Augustinian devotional practices for lay readers. Looking outward, religious drama and socially charged poetry publicized and interrogated hospitals' caring functions within urban charitable economies. Hospitals provided the auspices, audiences, and authors of such disparate literary works, propelling these texts into urban social life. Between ca. 1350 and ca. 1550, English hospitals saw massive changes in their fortunes, from the devastation of the Black Death, to various fifteenth-century reform initiatives, to the creeping dissolution of religious houses under Henry VIII and Edward VI. This volume investigates how hospitals defined and defended themselves with texts and in some cases reinvented themselves, using literary means to negotiate changed religious landscapes"

Hospitals, Medieval --- Hospitals --- History --- History.

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Plague --- Hospitals, Medieval --- Medicine --- Medicine, Ancient --- Medicine, Medieval --- History --- History --- History --- History

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History of Spain --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Catalonia --- Social history --- Medieval, 500-1500 --- Charities --- Spain --- Catalonia (Spain) --- History --- Hospitals [Medieval ] --- Middle Ages, 500-1500

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This study develops our understanding of medieval society through an examination of its charitable activities. In a detailed study of the forms in which relief was organised in medieval Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, the book unravels the economic and demographic factors which created the need for relief as well as the forms in which the community offered it. With continual reference to the religious teachings of priests and friars and the changing ideas of lay piety, Dr Rubin relates the changing forms of charitable giving to the shift in attitudes towards community and social order, towards relations between laity and clergy, and towards the poor. A local study is thus set in a wide comparative context, drawing together contributions in the fields of social, religious, economic and urban history.

Charities --- -Hospitals, Medieval --- -Medieval hospitals --- Alms and almsgiving --- Benevolent institutions --- Charitable institutions --- Endowed charities --- Institutions, Charitable and philanthropic --- Philanthropy --- Poor relief --- Private nonprofit social work --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Poor --- Social service --- Endowments --- History --- Societies, etc. --- Services for --- England --- Social conditions --- -Charities --- -History --- -Alms and almsgiving --- Medieval hospitals --- Hospitals, Medieval --- Arts and Humanities --- History.

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Hospitals, Medieval --- 364 <09> --- 942 --- 364 <09> Geschiedenis van de maatschappelijke voorzorg en bijstand --- Geschiedenis van de maatschappelijke voorzorg en bijstand --- Medieval hospitals --- Geschiedenis van Engeland en Groot-Brittannië --- Great Britain --- History