On Hospitals - Welfare, Law, and Christianity in Western Europe, 400-1320

A ground breaking study, On Hospitals explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes a legal model for the hospital. Running against orthodox opinion, Watson places welfare institutions, rather than Church-run organisations, at the heart of the medieval hospital's history.

List of contents

• Canon Law and the 'Revolution in Charity' (c.1150-c.1250)


• 1: Introduction: The Sheep and the Goats


• 2: Reading around the edges: Welfare houses and the general councils, 1139-1215


• A Western Model (c.400-c.900)


• 3: The Question of Francia (c.400-817)


• 4: Carolingian Lombardy (c.780-c.860)


• 5: Roman Law and the Western Tradition


• 6: Claims and Innovations


• Stalking the Borderlands (1100 -1320)


• 7: Canonists and Commentators, at the edges of canon law (1100-1260)


• 8: Robert de Courson and the Council of Reims (1213)


• 9: The Council of Vienne and Late Medieval Hospitals (1312)


• Conclusion


• Appendix A: Ad Petitionem: A lost decretal of Alexander III


• Appendix B: Robert de Courson's Hospital Decree (1213)

About the author

Sethina Watson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Her research interests range widely across the social and institutional history of medieval Christianity.

Summary

A ground breaking study, On Hospitals explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes a legal model for the hospital. Running against orthodox opinion, Watson places welfare institutions, rather than Church-run organisations, at the heart of the medieval hospital's history.

Additional text

This is an impressive book, successfully challenging many long-held assumptions about the history ofmedievalwelfare institutions. Watson's results differ fromthose of previous scholars, simply because she is a better historian.

Product details

• Authors: Sethina Watson, Sethina (Senior Lecturer in Medieval Histo Watson, Sethina (Senior Lecturer in Medieval History Watson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780198847533
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884753-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History; Oxford Studies in Medieval Eur
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Garden; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Philanthropy & Charity, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / Caregiving, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Western Europe, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Western Continental Europe