The Council of Vienne (1311/2) and Late Medieval Hospitals
Sethina Watson
Clement V’s council of Vienne (1311/2) in its canon, <italic>Quia contingit</italic> (1317), offered the only substantial statement canon law to address management welfare houses, which it defined as xenodochia, leprosaria, almshouses, and hospitals. The has long confused disappointed historians, not least for absence any detail how a hospital should be arranged. chapter explores possible sources council’s act elucidates choices made procedures followed by council, when drafting canon. It provides new reading culmination relationship between houses. As had Carolingian councils, Urban III’s <italic>Ad haec, Quia legislated hospitals structures administration gifts (alms) tasks human they been assigned. What did now was articulate right bishops might ensure that, if failing, managers or patrons fulfil these obligations.
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