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The Medieval Hospital: Literary Culture and Community in England, 1350-1550

The Medieval Hospital: Literary Culture and Community in England, 1350-1550

Rice, Nicole R.

Hardcover

Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern

Medical ReferenceLiterary CriticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0268205116
ISBN13: 9780268205119
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Apr 15 2023
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.99
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Nicole Rice's original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation.

The hospitals of late medieval England defy easy categorization. They were institutions of charity, medical care, and liturgical commemoration. At the same time, hospitals were cultural spaces sponsoring the performance of drama, the composition of medical texts, and the reading of devotional prose and vernacular poetry. Such practices both reflected and connected the disparate groups--regular religious, ill and poor people, well-off retirees--that congregated in hospitals. Nicole Rice's The Medieval Hospital offers the first book-length study of the place of hospitals in English literary history and cultural practice.

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