Title Hospitals and charity : religious culture and civic life in medieval northern Italy / Sally Mayall Brasher

Published Manchester [United Kingdom] : Manchester University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Hospitals and charity: history and context; 2 The foundation of hospitals; 3 Hospital management; 4 Internal life of the hospital; 5 Jurisdictional disputes; 6 Reform and consolidation; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index Summary 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 welfare systems. Will appeal to students and lecturers in medieval, social, religious, and urban history and includes a detailed appendix that will assist researchers in the field "Originally intended to house pilgrims and comfort the dying, hospitals in medieval Italy evolved from religious institutions reflecting communal and personal piety to civic facilities providing comprehensive social welfare and medical services to the urban community. At the same time, they became a means for the new urban elites to acquire political power and social status.In Hospitals and charity, Sally Brasher provides the first comprehensive examination of the founding of small independent hospitals throughout the region. Beginning in the twelfth century, she considers the challenges to establishing and managing these hospitals in the face of ecclesiastical and political interference over the succeeding three hundred years. The charitable institutions that emerged reflected a nexus of lay initiative, religious culture and civic political life. Though their independent nature makes generalisation difficult, Brasher assembles evidence from over 175 hospitals covering a wide geographic and chronological expanse to create a picture of the internal life of the institutions and their place within the urban community. In so doing, she provides a new framework for understanding the rise of the central civic hospital in the fifteenth century, a phenomenon that has generally been seen as a particular product of the Renaissance. Hospitals and charity will be of interest to students and researchers of medieval social, religious and urban history." --Back cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Hospitals, Medieval -- Italy -- History Medicine, Medieval. Hospitals, Medieval -- Italy Hospitals -- history History, Medieval Hospitals, Religious -- history POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. HISTORY / Medieval Medicine, Medieval Hospitals, Medieval Szpitale -- Włochy Północne -- średniowiecze. Italy Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017302795 ISBN 9781526119292 1526119293 9781526119308 1526119307

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