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The Medieval Hospitals of
England
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find full-text chapter links to Rotha Mary Clay's book The Medieval Hospitals of England.
Clay published the book through the Antiquaries Book Series in
1909. It is now in the public domain. I
transcribed Clay's original text
here. In this way, I am making my own notes available to you. As
such, there
may
be transcribing errors, factual errors in the text, or historical
points on which
historians or theologians do not agree. Read it, use it, love it, hate
it, on your own
terms and at your own risk. See my notes on the text.
Also see my info-blurb about Monastic
Hospitals.
I will add chapters to this page over time, starting with the chapters
pertaining to Lepers in England, their care, social, and religious
circumstance.
Public Domain text
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and prepared "as is" for HTML and PDF by Richenda Fairhurst,
historyfish.net. February
2008. No commercial permissions of this
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The Antiquary's Books
General Editor: J. Charles Cox., L.L.D., F.S.A.
THE
MEDIÆVAL HOSPITALS
OF ENGLAND
BY
ROTHA MARY CLAY
WITH A PREFACE BY
THE LORD BISHOP OF
BRISTOL
WITH 78 ILLUSTRATIONS
(list and sources as pdf, below.)
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C
LONDON
First Published in 1909
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[Illustration: St. Mary's Hospital, Dover.]
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CONTENTS
Preface
by the Lord Bishop of Bristol.........................vii
Introduction....................................................................xvii
Plates and Illustrations, Lists and
Sources pdf
only (1,600KB)
CHAPTER 1
Hospitals for
Wayfarers and the
Sick....................................1
(General overview, including issues of poverty and touching on
hospitals for lying-in women and childbirth.)
CHAPTER II
Homes for the Feeble and
Destitute....................................15
CHAPTER III
Homes for the
Insane..........................................................31
CHAPTER IV
The Lazar-House.....................................................35
(An overview.)
CHAPTER V
The Leper in
England.............................................................48
(Life and legal situation.)
CHAPTER VI
Founders and
Benefactors.....................................................70
CHAPTER VII
Hospital
Inmates..................................................................91
CHAPTER VIII
Hospital
Dwellings..............................................................106
CHAPTER IX
The
Constitution..................................................................126
CHAPTER X
The Household and its
Members........................................143
(Numbers of inmates, gender segregation, master and servants.)
CHAPTER XI
Care of the
Soul................................................................158
CHAPTER XII
Care of the
Body...............................................................167
CHAPTER XIII
Hospital
Funds..................................................................178
CHAPTER XIV
Relations with Church and
State.........................................194
CHAPTER XV
Decline of
Hospitals..........................................................212
CHAPTER XVI
The Dissolution of
Religious Houses and its
Effect
upon
Hospitals...................................................................226
PART II
Hospital Patron
Saints.....................................................244
APPENDIX A
Office at the Seclusion of
a
Leper.....................................273
(Church service where a person suffering from leprosy is set
apart from the community.)
APPENDIX B
Tabulated List of Foundations........................................278
(Available as 1,800KB PDF only, mea culpa.
See also English Monastic Life
for html lists of monastic
houses.)
Bibliography...................................................................339
General
Index................................................................343
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