This is the first wide-ranging collection of articles on the history of hospitals in the Mediterranean, northern Europe, and the Americas for over seventeen years. It brings together fully revised and expanded versions of papers from the first two conferences (1999 University of East Anglia, Norwich; 2001 Verona University) sponsored by the International Network for the History of Hospitals. The collection shows the vigour and variety of the latest scholarly research on these complex institutions. The sixteen contributions present a nuanced approach to the impact of hospitals on society over a very long time period and an exceptional geographical range. This is the first wide-ranging collection of articles on the history of hospitals in the Mediterranean, northern Europe, and the Americas for over seventeen years. It brings together fully revised and expanded versions of papers from the first two conferences (1999 University of East Anglia, Norwich; 2001 Verona University) sponsored by the International Network for the History of Hospitals. The collection shows the vigour and variety of the latest scholarly research on these complex institutions. The sixteen contributions present a nuanced approach to the impact of hospitals on society over a very long time period and an exceptional geographical range. Preface 9 List of Figures 11 JOHN HENDERSON, PEREGRINE HORDEN and ALESSANDRO PASTORE Introduction. The World of the Hospital: Comparisons and Continuities 15 Part One: The Impact of the Patron 1 PEREGRINE HORDEN Alms and the Man: Hospital Founders in Byzantium 59 2 KEVIN C. ROBBINS Patrimony, Trust, and Trusteeship: The Practice and Control of Burgundian Philanthropy at Beaune's H tel-Dieu, c. 1630 77 3 MATTHEW THOMAS SNEIDER The Treasury of the Poor: Hospital Finance in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Bologna 93 4 MARINA GARBELLOTTI Assets of the Poor, Assets of the City: The Management of Hospital Resources in Verona between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries 117 5 ANDREA TANNER Too Many Mothers? Female Roles in a Metropolitan Victorian Children's Hospital 135 Part Two: The Visual Impact 6 CAROLE RAWCLIFFE 'A Word from Our Sponsor': Advertising the Patron in the Medieval Hospital 167 7 CHRISTINE STEVENSON Prints 'proper to shew to Gentlemen': Representing the British Hospital, c. 1700-50 195 8 ANNIVIARIE ADAMS 'That was Then, This is Now': Hospital Architecture in the Age(s) of Revolution, 1970-2001 219 Part Three: The Impact on Rural Landscape 9 MAX SATCHELL Towards a Landscape History of the Rural Hospital in England, 1100-1300 237 10 SERGIO ONGER The Formation of the Hospital Network in the Brescian Region between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries 257 11 STEVE CHERRY 'Keeping your hand in' and Holding On: General Practitioners and Rural Hospitals in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century East Anglia 275 Part Four: The Impact on the Patient 12 LOUISE GRAY Hospitals and the Lives of the Chronically Sick: Coping with Illness in the Narratives of the Rural Poor in Early Modern Germany 297 13 ERIC GRUBER VON ARNI 'Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis': The Experience of Sick and Wounded Soldiers during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1642-60 317 14 FLURIN CONDRAU The Institutional Career of Tuberculosis: Social Policy, Medical Institutions and Patients before World War II 341 Part Five: The Demographic Impact 15 ALYSA LEVENE Saving the Innocents: Nursing Foundlings in Florence and London in the Eighteenth Century 375 16 DIEGO RAMIRO FAR S Mortality in Hospitals and Mortality in the City in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain: The Effect on the Measurement of Urban Mortality Rates of the Mortality of Outsiders in Urban Health Institutions 395 List of Contributors 417 Index 419