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Title: Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland
Condition: New
Author: Lucy Barnhouse
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 9463720243
EAN: 9789463720243
ISBN: 9789463720243
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Genre: Medicine
Topic: History
Release Date: 31/08/2023
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: NL
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Book Series: Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
Release Year: 2023

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