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The Medieval Hospital: Literary Culture and Community in England, 1350-1550 (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern) by Nicole R. Rice; Professor of English Literature Nicole R Rice is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Medieval Hospital: Literary Culture and Community in England, 1350-1550 (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern) about?
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.Rice highlights three English hospitals as porous sites whose practices translated into textual engagements with some of urban society’s most pressing concerns: charity, health, devotion, and commerce. Within these institutions, medical compendia treated the alarming bodies of women and religious anthologies translated Augustinian devotional practices for lay readers. Looking outward, religious drama and socially charged poet
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- Author
- Nicole R. Rice; Professor of English Literature Nicole R Rice
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780268205119
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, European History, Humanities
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