The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice

The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice

Author: Barbara S. Bowers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1351885731

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Using an innovative approach to evidence for the medieval hospital and medical practice, this collection of essays presents new research by leading international scholars in creating a holistic look at the hospital as an environment within a social and intellectual context. The research presented creates insights into practice, medicines, administration, foundation, regulation, patronage, theory, and spirituality. Looking at differing models of hospital administration between 13th century France and Spain, social context is explored. Seen from the perspective of the history of Knights of the Order of Saint Lazarus, and Order of the Temple, hospital and practice have a different emphasis. Extant medieval hospitals at Tonnerre and Winchester become the basis for exploring form and function in relation to health theory (spiritual and non-spiritual) as well as the influence of patronage and social context. In the case of the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan, this line of argument is taken further to demonstrate aspects of the building based on a concept of epidemiology. Evidence for the practice of medicine presented in these essays comes from a variety of sources and approaches such as remedy books, medical texts, recorded practice, and by making parallels with folk medicine. Archaeological evidence indicates both religious and non religious medical intervention while skeletal remains reveal both pathology and evidence of treatment.


Medieval Medicine

Medieval Medicine

Author: Faith Wallis

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2019-02-06

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1442604239

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Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars. The reader includes 21 illustrations and a glossary of medical terms.


The Medieval Economy of Salvation

The Medieval Economy of Salvation

Author: Adam J. Davis

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-12-15

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1501742124

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In The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses. Focusing on the county of Champagne, he looks at the ways in which charitable organizations and individuals—townspeople, merchants, aristocrats, and ecclesiastics—saw in these new institutions a means of infusing charitable giving and service with new social significance and heightened expectations of spiritual rewards. In tracing the rise of the medieval hospital during a period of intense urbanization and the transition from a gift economy to a commercial one, Davis makes clear how embedded this charitable institution was in the wider social, cultural, religious, and economic fabric of medieval life.


The Role of the Hospital in Medieval England

The Role of the Hospital in Medieval England

Author: Sheila Sweetinburgh

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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In the medieval period hospitals, charity and salvation seemed to go hand in hand, with patrons founding, supporting and giving gifts to hospitals for various spiritual and political gains.


Leprosy in Medieval England

Leprosy in Medieval England

Author: Carole Rawcliffe

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781843834540

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A major reassessment, based on hitherto unpublished manuscript material, of a disease whose history has attracted more myths and misunderstandings than any other.


Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England

Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England

Author: Anthony Emery

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-03-09

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 9781139449199

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This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500, first published in 2006. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the first comprehensive review of the subject for 150 years. Covered are the full range of leading homes, from royal and episcopal palaces to manor houses, as well as community buildings such as academic colleges, monastic granges and secular colleges of canons. This volume surveys Southern England and is divided into three regions, each of which includes a separate historical and architectural introduction as well as thematic essays prompted by key buildings. The text is complemented throughout by a wide range of plans and diagrams and a wealth of photographs showing the present condition of almost every house discussed. This is an essential source for anyone interested in the history, architecture and culture of medieval England and Wales.


Medicine for the Soul

Medicine for the Soul

Author: Carole Rawcliffe

Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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The medieval English hospital held a mirror to society, reflecting its preoccupations and anxieties, not only about charity and health in this world, but salvation in the next. Using a combination of contemporary documentary and architectural evidence, this text presents an in-depth assessment of one specific institution - St Gile's Hospital, Norwich - and sets it firmly in its historical context.