On Hospitals: Welfare, Law, and Christianity in Western Europe, 400-1320

by Sethina Watson

This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital. On Hospitals takes us beyond canon law, Carolingian capitularies, and Justinian's Code and Novels, to late Roman testamentary law,
identifying new legislation and legal initiatives in every period. In challenging long established orthodoxies, a new history of the hospital emerges, one that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019884753X
• ISBN13: 9780198847533
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"