Local Hospitals in Ancien Régime France: Rationalization, Resistance, Renewal, 1530-1789 Volume 5

by Daniel Hickey

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the French Crown closed down thousands of local hospices, maladreries, and small hospitals that had been refuges for the sick and poor, supposedly acting in the name of efficiency, better management, and elimination of duplicate services. Its true motive, however, was to expropriate their revenues and holdings. Hickey shows how, in spite of government efforts, a countermovement emerged that to some degree...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773515402
• ISBN13: 9780773515406
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"