IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 209: Administering the Poor in Medieval Eastern and Western European Hospitals
Monday 12 July 2004, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Mark P. O'Tool, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara |
|---|---|
| Moderator/Chair: | John Henderson, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London / School of Philosophy, History & International Studies, Monash University |
| Paper 209-a | Hospitals between Cleric, Magistrate, and Medic: Clash of Cultures or Negotiated Settlement? (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Religious Life |
| Paper 209-b | Clash of Cultures - Clash of Functions: Cultural Negotiation of Hospital Functions in Medieval Poland (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Religious Life |
| Paper 209-c | The Bourgeois Leading the Blind: Relations between Hospital Administrators and the Disabled (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Lay Piety, Medicine, Social History |
| Paper 209-d | The Commemoration of the Benefactors in the Hospitals of Deventer and Leiden (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine |
| Abstract | During the Middle Ages the hospital was the primary charitable institution sustaining the poor, the ill, and the disabled. This panel examines a complex clash between the ecclesiastical and secular cultures of hospital administrators and the marginal culture of the inmates occurring within a controlled and institutionalized framework. By comparing and contrasting practices within Eastern and Western European settings it is possible to draw a more complete picture of how charitable institutions, and the men and women affected by them, negotiated the wants and needs of different socio-economic classes that combined to produce our cultures of sharing and giving. |