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By Nicholas Orme and Margaret Webster. 308 pp., illustrated. new Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1995. $45. ISBN 0-300-06058-0.

Professor Orme of the department of history at Exeter University and his associate Margaret Webster provide an inclusive, scholarly account of the hospitals of England in the clerically dominated centuries before the Reformation. At that historic watershed, just as the mighty abbeys and monasteries fell before Henry VIII, Defender of the Faith, so too the large number of hospitals in England, 585 or more, of which a few approached the monasteries in size and social position, found themselves under devastating attack.

In the Middle Ages hospitals were religious houses with varying degrees of clerical direction. The word "hospital" was derived . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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