The Mediæval Hospitals of England
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Rotha Mary Clay's study of the hospitals of England begins with Part One and a first chapter on hospitals for wayfarers and the sick. Its epigraph describes houses founded for poor pilgrims and infirm persons who stayed until they were healed, and the text explains that the word hospital comes from hospes, a host or guest, so the earliest of these houses were wayside shelters for all comers.
A second chapter turns to homes for the feeble and destitute, called hospital, Maison Dieu, almshouse or bedehouse. Examples include God's House at Kingston-upon-Hull, with places for thirteen poor men and women, and St. John's at Canterbury, founded about 1084. Other pages describe the rights of lepers to collect food and tolls at Exeter, Shrewsbury, Chester and Southampton. Footnotes cite the Close Rolls and other sources, and an index runs to many names and places.
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- Author
- Rotha Mary Clay
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Genre
- European History
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