{"product_id":"the-medieval-hospital-literary-culture-and-community-in-england-13501550-9780268205119","title":"The Medieval Hospital  Literary Culture and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In its study of these medical\/spiritual institutions and individuals, \u003ci\u003eThe Medieval Hospital\u003c\/i\u003e offers a perspective not previously employed and thus makes an important contribution to the history of reading.” —Mary C. Erler, author of \u003ci\u003eReading and Writing during the Dissolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this pathbreaking study, Nicole Rice excavates the urban hospital’s contributions to literary and performative cultures in medieval England. This book merits the attention of everyone interested in the processes of loss, negotiation, and reinvention that mark the relationship of medieval and early modern in English culture and history.\" —Theresa Coletti, author of \u003ci\u003eMary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rice's sources are wide-ranging in genre, form, and content, as befits the institutional motility that is her central concern. The result is a richly illuminating and meticulously researched study that will be of great interest to general readers and specialists alike.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Review of English Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this magisterial new book, Nicole Rice musters a wealth of interdisciplinary expertise in order to establish the 'literary-cultural function' of the medieval hospital, a surprisingly robust and prolific engine of textual production and practice.\"\u003cem\u003e—Studies in the Age of Chaucer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: English Hospitals as Spiritual, Medical, and Literary Communities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. St. Leonard’s Hospital, Civic Drama, and Women’s Devotion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Corruption and Purification at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London: The Book of the Foundation and John Mirfield’s Compilations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Lay Reading in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Close: John Shirley’s Final Anthology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Collaborative Devotional Reading at St. Bartholomew’s and St. Mark’s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Poverty, Charity, and Poetry: Critique and Reform Before the Dissolution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Dissolution, Disappearance and Refoundation: Textual Strategies of Reconstitution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Rites for the Dead and the End of Purgatory, 1540–52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400763842903,"sku":"9780268205119","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-medieval-hospital-literary-culture-and-community-in-england-13501550-9780268205119","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}