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Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland (Hardcover)
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Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland (Hardcover)
Series: Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
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From the mid-twelfth century onwards, the development of European
hospitals was shaped by their claim to the legal status of
religious institutions, with its attendant privileges and
responsibilities. The questions of whom hospitals should serve and
why they should do so have recurred — and been invested with
moral weight — in successive centuries, though similarities
between medieval and modern debates on the subject have often been
overlooked. Hospitals’ legal status as religious institutions
could be tendentious and therefore had to be vigorously defended in
order to protect hospitals’ resources. This status could also,
however, be invoked to impose limits on who could serve in and be
served by hospitals. As recent scholarship demonstrates, disputes
over whom hospitals should serve, and how, find parallels in other
periods of history and current debates.
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