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The English Hospital, 1070-1570 (Hardcover)
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The English Hospital, 1070-1570 (Hardcover)
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The first English hospitals appeared soon after the Norman
Conquest. By the year 1300 they numbered over 500, caring for the
sick and needy at every level of society - from the gentry and
clergy to pilgrims, travellers, beggars and lepers. Excluded from
towns, but placed by main highways where they could gather alms,
they had a complex relationship with medieval society: cherished
yet marginalised, self-contained yet also parasitic. This book -
the first general history of medieval and Tudor hospitals in
eighty-five years - traces when and why they originated and follows
their development through the crisis periods of the Black Death and
the English Reformation when many disappeared. Nicholas Orme and
Margaret Webster explore the hospitals' religious, charitable and
medical functions, examine their buildings, staffing and finances,
and analyse their inmates in terms of social background and medical
needs. They reconstruct the daily life of hospitals, from worship
to living conditions, food and care. The general survey is
complemented by a regional study of hospitals in the south-west of
England, including detailed histories of all the recorded
institutions in Cornwall and Devon.
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