vbid/9783030020569

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Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions: The History of the Municipal Hospital examines the development of medieval�institutions of care, beginning with a survey of the earliest known hospitals�in ancient times to the classical period, to the early Middle Ages, and finally to the explosion of hospitals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. �For Western Christian medieval�societies, institutional charity was a necessity set forth by the religion�s dictums�care for the needy and sick was a tenant of the faith, leading to a unique partnership between Christianity�and institutional care that would expand into the fledging hospitals�of the early Modern period.� In this study, the hospital�of Saint�John in Brussels�serves as an example of the developments. The institution�followed the pattern of the establishment of medieval charitable institutions in the high Middle Ages, but diverged to become anarchetype for later Christian hospitals.Typham this is the title: Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions The History of the Municipal Hospital