Hospitals and charity
Religious culture and civic life in medieval northern Italy
This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Throughout this flourishing urbanised area hundreds of independent semi-religious facilities appeared, offering care for the ill, the poor and pilgrims en route to holy sites in Rome and the eastern Mediterranean. Over three centuries they became mechanisms for the appropriation of civic authority and political influence in the communities they served, and created innovative experiments in healthcare and poor relief which are the precursors to modern social we…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-1930-8
- EAN: 9781526119308
- Produktnummer: 32341524
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'651 KB
- Abbildungen: 6 b&w illustrations, 2 maps
Über den Autor
Sally Mayall Brasher is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at Shepherd University
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