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T1 - The hospital of early modern London was a fast-evolving platial concept. Many religious hospitals were dissolved in or shortly after 1536 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. These religious hospitals covered a wide range of hospitality-related functions, including medical and spiritual care, almsgiving, education, and pilgrim lodging. After the Dissolution, new and reendowed hospitals played a central role in the City of London’s developing poor relief program. Our categorization covers the wider range of pre- and post-Reformation hospitals that existed within our temporal scope or are remembered in our primary sources. Many of these are also indiscernible from their associated churches and therefore fall under both categories. See our Hospitals topic page for more information.
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CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
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The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
Although its name evokes the pandemonium of the archetypal madhouse, Bethlehem (Bethlem, Bedlam) Hospital was not always an asylum. As Priorie of Cannons with brethren and
sisters
, founded in one of the Sheriffes of London
(Stow 1:164). We know from
Bridewell was a prison and hospital. The site was originally a royal palace (Bridewell Palace) but was transferred to the
Bride Well
.
Located in Farringdon Within Ward, Christ’s Hospital was a opened in
Harben notes that the first known mention of the hospital, which is in the
calendar of the patent rolls, stated that a
license [was] granted to
(Harben 217). The aforementioned
Savoy Hospital was located along the Strand in Westminster.
for the
reliefe of one hundreth poore people
(Stow 1598, sig. 2D7r). The hospital was suppressed by
St. Anthony’s Hospital was associated with the
Parish of St. Benet (Fink) and was on the opposite side of Threadneedle Street from the church of the parish, St. Benet Fink.
According to the christians obtayned of the king that it should be
dedicated to our blessed Lady, and since an Hospital being there builded, was called S. Anthonies in
London
(Stow 1598, sig. K8v). The hospital
consisted of a church, almsnouse, and school.
According to
St. Giles in the Fields was a hospital and parish church. It is marked near the western edge of the Agas map with the label S. Gyles in the Fyeld
. According to
St. John’s of Jerusalem provided housing and care
for pilgrims and crusading knights. It was held by the
St. Katherine’s Hospital was a religious hospital
founded in was not much inferior to
that of [St.] Paules [Cathedral]
(Stow).
According to
According to
St. Mary Spital was an Augustinian Priory and
Hospital on the east side of Bishopsgate Street.
The Priory dates from 1197. The old precinct of St.
Mary Spital is visible on the Agas map. The church itself was
demolished after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in
St. Thomas Hospital was a hospital and parish church dedicated to
The hospital of early modern London was a fast-evolving platial concept. Many religious hospitals were dissolved in or shortly
after
The Julian calendar, in use in the British Empire until September 1752. This calendar is used for dates where the date of the beginning of the year is ambigious.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year regularized to beginning on 1 January.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year beginning on 25 March. This was the calendar used in the British Empire until September 1752.
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referred to as
The Anno Mundi (year of the world
) calendar is based on the supposed date of the
creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different
creation dates are in common use. See Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).
Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch.
Our practice is to tag such dates with
Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
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