Orme, Nicholas.

The English hospital 1070-1570 / Nicholas Orme and Margaret Webster.

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995.

xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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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Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Krankenhaus Grimmen
Hospitals England History.
Medicine, Medieval England.
Medicine History.
Hospitals history
History of Medicine
Hôpitaux Angleterre Histoire.
Médecine médiévale Angleterre.
Médecine Histoire.
history of medicine.
Medicine
Hospitals
Medicine, Medieval
Hospital
Gasthuizen.
Hospitals Great Britain History.
Medicine, Medieval Great Britain.
Medicine Great Britain History.
United Kingdom
England
Hospitals History, 1066-1603
Medical Humanities.

Student Collection.
History

Webster, Margaret Elise Graham.

Location: Library main 189646
Call No.: ID RA964.O76; ID:95-B1048
Status: Available