Medieval at Your Favorite Things

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• Society: History: By Time Period: Middle Ages  (506)

• 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.
• 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.
• Heritage of Mercy - Jean Manco explains the development of medieval hospitals and almshouses in Britain. Article first published in Medieval History.
• The History of St Bartholomew's Hospital - An illustrated history from the official site of the hospital founded in 1123 which went on to become one of London's leading teaching hospitals.
• Hospices Civils de Beaune - The official site describes the history and organisation of this French hospital founded in 1443 by the Chancellor Nicolas Rolin. The older buildings are open to the public.
• The Hospital of St John the Baptist Bridgwater - An illustrated history by Peter Cattermole of this medieval hospital closed in 1536.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. [PDF]
• MuslimHeritage.com: The Modern Hospital in Medieval Islam - A brief, illustrated article on the Islamic medieval hospital, taken from a longer scholarly article by Prof. Aydin Sayili which is also available in PDF format.
• Soutra Aisle - Brief mention of the excavation of a 14th-century Augustinian hospital in Scotland, with a photograph of a related standing building.
• St John's Hospital, Bruges - A history and photographs of this large medieval hospital, now a museum, from Belgium Travel Network.
• Wikipedia: English Medieval Hospitals and Almshouses - The collaborative encyclopedia offers several articles on individual hospitals or almshouses founded in England in medieval times.
• Wikipedia: Ospedale degli Innocenti - An illustrated article from the collaborative encyclopedia on the 'Hospital of the Innocents', a children's orphanage in Florence designed by Filippo Brunelleschi in 1419.