A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval LifeDescribes the daily life of noblewomen, nuns, and peasants in feudal England and Europe, looks at the treatment of lepers, beggars, prostitutes, and criminals, and offers brief profiles of prominent medieval women. |
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Page 122
... lepers in the leper - hospital in her birthplace of Huy near Liège but then decided to devote herself to contemplation . She had herself enclosed in a cell adjoining the leper- house and spent more than forty years there before she died ...
... lepers in the leper - hospital in her birthplace of Huy near Liège but then decided to devote herself to contemplation . She had herself enclosed in a cell adjoining the leper- house and spent more than forty years there before she died ...
Page 183
... leper- houses . 24 The medieval hospital was encouraged by the growing emphasis on practical charity which can be observed in sermons and wills . The pattern of its organisation was drawn in part from the Hospitaller Order of St. John ...
... leper- houses . 24 The medieval hospital was encouraged by the growing emphasis on practical charity which can be observed in sermons and wills . The pattern of its organisation was drawn in part from the Hospitaller Order of St. John ...
Page 192
... lepers , but did not eat with them and were enjoined not to make the lepers ' beds until they had left the room . Other women gave some care to lepers while remaining in their own homes in a pattern suggestive of a modern women's ...
... lepers , but did not eat with them and were enjoined not to make the lepers ' beds until they had left the room . Other women gave some care to lepers while remaining in their own homes in a pattern suggestive of a modern women's ...
Contents
THE PRECURSORS | 1 |
THE MOULD FOR MEDIEVAL WOMEN | 18 |
QUEENS | 44 |
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