The Impact of Hospitals

The Editors: John Henderson is Professor of Renaissance History at Birkbeck University of London. His major publications include: Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence (1994, 1997), The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe (with Jon Arrizabalaga and Roger French) (1997), and The Renaissance Hospital: Healing the Body and Healing the Soul (2006). Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway University of London. He is co-author, with Nicholas Purcell, of The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (2000), of which a sequel, Liquid Continents, is in preparation, and author of two forthcoming volumes: The Earliest Hospitals, and Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages. He edited Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity (2000). Alessandro Pastore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Verona. Among his recent books are: Il medico in tribunale. La perizia medica nella procedura penale d'antico regime, secoli XVI-XVIII (1998), Alpinismo e storia d'Italia. Dall'Unità alla Resistenza (2003), and Le regole dei corpi. Medicina e disciplina nell'Italia moderna (2006).