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Medieval Listings
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The Gallery of the Hospital of the Innocents < Link Review >
An illustrated description from Your Way to Florence of the gallery set in the early 15th-century orphanage designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.
http://www.arca.net/db/musei/innocent.htm |
Heritage of Mercy < Link Review >
Jean Manco explains the development of medieval hospitals and almshouses in Britain. Article first published in Medieval History.
http://www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Articles/Heritage.htm |
The Hospital of San Luca in Lucca < Link Review >
A photograph and guide to the history and archaeology of this Italian medieval hospital, from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
http://www.sns.it/html/Groups/Archeo/S.Luca/Hosp.html |
The Hospital of St John the Baptist Bridgwater < Link Review >
An illustrated history by Peter Cattermole of this medieval hospital closed in 1536.
http://www.friarn.co.uk/StJohn/ |
Hotel-Dieu, Beaune, France < Link Review >
A history, description and expandable thumbnail photographs of this surviving medieval hospital, now a museum, by Canadian visitor Sara Genn. From Saraphina Travelogue.
http://www.saraphina.com/moseyfr/091599/091599hoteldieu.htm |
Innocenti Hospital < Link Review >
Gloria Chiarini describes the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence, founded in 1419 for orphans and abandoned children, and designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. Part of The Florence Art Guide.
http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/ospinn.htm |
The Maison Dieu, Dover < Link Review >
Dover Museum provides a history of the hospice founded in 1203 by Hubert de Burgh, and used as the town hall from 1834 to 1881.
http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/history/maisond.asp |
Maison Dieu, Faversham < Link Review >
A monastic hospital founded by Henry III about A.D. 1230 and now a museum. The official town guide provides a history, images and visitor information.
http://www.faversham.org/pages/standard.aspx?i_PageID=15845 |
Medieval Hospitals of Oxfordshire < Link Review >
Margaret Markham gives a history and description: endowments, diagnosis and treatment, internal life, dedications, buildings and locations. Includes foundation dates and brief details of individual hospitals. [PDF].
http://www.wantage.com/museum/Local_History/Medieval%20Hospitals.pdf |
Medieval Hospitals of Kent < Link Review >
Ian Coulson introduces the topic, gives a list of early hospitals and almshouses in the county, with foundation dates, and a plan and reconstruction drawing of St John's Hospital, Canterbury, the oldest hospital in England.
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/history/medhist/page16_hospital.html |
Mediweb: The Royal and Ancient Hospital of St Bartholomew < Link Review >
An illustrated history of the monastic hospital founded by Rahere in 1123 at Smithfield, just outside London's city walls, which evolved into a modern teaching hospital.
http://www.themediweb.net/Lecture/historyofmedicine/introduction.htm |
Soutra Aisle < Link Review >
Brief mention of the excavation of a 14th-century Augustinian hospital in Scotland, with a photograph of a related standing building.
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst8386.html |
St. Bartholomew's Hospital Archives and Museum < Link Review >
The famous teaching hospital holds archives going back to its foundation circa 1123. History and visitor information.
http://www.brlcf.org.uk/archivesandmuseums/ |
St John's Hospital, Bruges < Link Review >
A history and photographs of this large medieval hospital, now a museum, from Belgium Travel Network.
http://www.trabel.com/brugge/bruges-hospital.htm |
Ancient Arts of Anesthesia Are Unlocked < Link Review >
Report that excavation of the medieval Soutra Hospital near Edinburgh showed that some 200 herbs and spices were used as medicines, reproduced in Today's Healthy News.
http://www.healthy.net/library/newsletters/update/anethesia.htm |
City of Winchester: Hospital of St Cross < Link Review >
An illustrated history of this almshouse founded in the 1130s by Bishop Henry of Blois for 13 poor men, and enlarged in the 15th century by Cardinal Beaufort.
http://www.cityofwinchester.co.uk/history/html/st_cross.html |
Domus Dei, Portsmouth, UK < Link Review >
Hantsweb gives the history of hospice founded by Peter de Rupibus, the Crusader Bishop of Winchester, in 1212, fire-bombed in 1941. Includes photograph.
http://www.hants.gov.uk/discover/places/domusdei.html |
Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury < Link Review >
The official site gives an illustrated introduction to the medieval Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr, and Greyfriars Chapel, the only surviving part of a Franciscan friary. Includes visitor information.
http://eastbridgehospital.org.uk |
