On Hospitals
Sethina Watson
This book offers a fundamental reconception of the place welfare institutions in medieval church, and so significance Western Christianity. It takes as its subject treatment hospitals, <italic>xenodochia</italic>, almshouses, leprosaria church law from late antique period to fourteenth century, when council Vienne issued so-called ‘magna carta hospitals’. The hospitals ‘between world’ has long caused confusion, not least because popes, canonists, bishops seem have cared about their wayward state. charts legal development distinctively form welfare. goes beyond councils, collections, commentaries that made up canon law, into Carolingian capitularies, Justinian’s Code Novels, Roman testamentary law. In doing, it identifies new legislation initiatives every period, contradictory products law-makers who were working without precedent. Here, at fringes pioneers worked, forgers played. Their efforts shed light on both familiar forgotten, major figures, including Abbot Ansegis Saint Wandrille, Wala Corbie, Pseudo-Isidorian forgers, Pope Alexander III, Bernard Pavia, Robert de Courson. A fundamentally European history hospital emerges, which reveals central place, across thousand years, <italic>caritas</italic> also rise Christian institution belonged but any faithful.
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