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Hantsweb gives the history of hospice founded by Peter de Rupibus, the Crusader Bishop of
Winchester, in 1212, fire-bombed in 1941. Includes photograph.
http://www.hants.gov.uk/discover/places/domusdei.html
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Maison Dieu, Faversham
A monastic hospital founded by Henry III about A.D. 1230 and now a museum. The official town guide
provides a history, images and visitor information.
http://www.faversham.org/visitors/dieu.asp
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The Maison Dieu, Dover
Dover Museum provides a history of the hospice founded in 1203 by Hubert de Burgh, and used as the
town hall from 1834 to 1881.
http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/history/maisond.htm
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Heritage of Mercy
Jean Manco explains the development of medieval hospitals and almshouses in Britain. Article first
published in Medieval History.
http://www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Articles/Heritage.htm
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Mediweb: The Royal and Ancient Hospital of St Bartholomew
An illustrated history of the monastic hospital founded by Rahere in 1123 at Smithfield, just
outside London's city walls, which evolved into a modern teaching hospital.
http://www.themediweb.net/Lecture/historyofmedicine/introduction.htm
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City of Winchester: Hospital of St Cross
An illustrated history of this almshouse founded in the 1130s by Bishop Henry of Blois for 13 poor
men, and enlarged in the 15th century by Cardinal Beaufort.
http://www.cityofwinchester.co.uk/history/html/st_cross.html
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St. Bartholomew's Hospital Archives and Museum
The famous teaching hospital holds archives going back to its foundation circa 1123. History and
visitor information.
http://www.brlcf.org.uk/archivesandmuseums/
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Soutra Aisle
Brief mention of the excavation of a 14th-century Augustinian hospital in Scotland, with a
photograph of a related standing building.
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst8386.html
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Medieval Hospitals of Oxfordshire
Margaret Markham gives a history and description: endowments, diagnosis and treatment, internal
life, dedications, buildings and locations. Includes foundation dates and brief details of
individual hospitals.
http://www.wantage.com/museum/Local_History/Medieval_Hospitals/medieval_hospitals.html
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Medieval Hospitals of Kent
Ian Coulson introduces the topic, gives a list of early hospitals and almshouses in the county,
with foundation dates, and a plan and reconstruction drawing of St John's Hospital, Canterbury, the
oldest hospital in England.
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/medhist/page16_hospital.html
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Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury
The official site gives an illustrated introduction to the medieval Hospital of St. Thomas the
Martyr, and Greyfriars Chapel, the only surviving part of a Franciscan friary. Includes visitor
information.
http://eastbridgehospital.org.uk
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The Gallery of the Hospital of the Innocents
An illustrated description from Your Way to Florence of the gallery set in the early 15th-century
orphanage designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.
http://www.arca.net/db/musei/innocent.htm
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Innocenti Hospital
Gloria Chiarini describes the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence, founded in 1419 for orphans and
abandoned children, and designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. Part of The Florence Art Guide.
http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/ospinn.htm
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Medieval Hospitals of Bath
Jean Manco explains the purpose and history of the city's earliest hospitals: St Mary Magdalen, St
John's, St Catherine's, the Leper's Hospital and Bellott's. Part of Bath Past.
http://www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Bath/Medieval/Hospitals.htm
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International Congress on Medieval Studies, 2001
Abstracts of papers delivered at the conference in Kalamazoo on 'The Medieval Hospital and Medical
Practice: Bridging the Evidence' which includes hospital architecture.
http://www.epas.utoronto.ca/~avista/kz2001prog.html
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St John's Hospital, Bruges
A history and photographs of this large medieval hospital, now a museum, from Belgium Travel
Network.
http://www.trabel.com/brugge/bruges-hospital.htm
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London Town Guide - Bedlam (Bethlehem Royal Hospital)
History of the Bethlehem Royal Hospital (c.1330 - 1930), the famous hospital for the mentally ill
in London, England. No illustrations.
http://www.smoothhound.co.uk/tourism/london/bedlam.html
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Hotel-Dieu, Beaune, France
A history, description and expandable thumbnail photographs of this surviving medieval hospital,
now a museum, by Canadian visitor Sara Genn. From Saraphina Travelogue.
http://www.saraphina.com/moseyfr/091599/091599hoteldieu.htm
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The Hospital of San Luca in Lucca
A photograph and guide to the history and archaeology of this Italian medieval hospital, from the
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
http://www.sns.it/html/Groups/Archeo/S.Luca/Hosp.html
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Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury
An illustrated description by Revd. David Hayes of the surviving medieval pilgrim hospice of St
Thomas the Martyr, with visitor information, from the Online Guide to Canterbury.
http://www.thycotic.com/guide/sights/easthosp.html
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Ancient Arts of Anesthesia Are Unlocked
Report that excavation of the medieval Soutra Hospital near Edinburgh showed that some 200 herbs
and spices were used as medicines, reproduced in Today's Healthy News.
http://www.healthy.net/library/newsletters/update/anethesia.htm
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