Preaching in thirteenth-century hospitals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11892020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam J Davis (a Denison University, Department of History , 100 South Road, Granville OH 43023, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 72-89 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Medieval History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-4181 • E-ISSN: 1873-1279 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jmedhist.2009.12.002 |
| OpenAlex | W2010683282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article uses thirteenth-century hospital sermons as a window into the moral and religious environment of these charitable institutions, large numbers of which were founded during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. What emerges from the reportationes of sermons preached in the hôtel-dieu of Paris and ad status sermons directed at hospitals' personnel and inmates by Jacques de Vitry, Humbert of Romans and Guibert de Tournai is a spirituality that stressed the penitential (and potentially salvific) power of doing works of mercy (in the case of hospital workers) and bodily suffering (in the case of hospital inmates). The particular social context of hospital preaching is also evident in preachers' anxieties about the quality of hospital administration. The sermons that were preached in thirteenth-century hospitals reflect the heightened value placed on caring for the sick and poor, a historical development more often associated with the later middle ages
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Kingdom · Literature · Middle Ages · Narrative · Penitential · Period (music · Power (physics · Sociology · Spirituality · Theology · Value (mathematics · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Medicine · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |