Hospitals and Charity - Religious Culture and Civic Life in Medieval Northern Italy

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.

List of contents

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
Index

About the author

Sally Mayall Brasher is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at Shepherd University

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Sally Mayall Brasher, Brasher Sally Mayall
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2017
• EAN: 9781526119285
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1928-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, History of Religion, Medieval History, Social and cultural history, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval