Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : religious charity
  • The pious and the practical : an ideology of charity
  • A cascade of hospitals
  • To shelter the pilgrim : military orders, hospices, and bridges
  • The Hospitaller orders
  • Lay piety
  • Charity that sanctifies
  • The religious dimensions of care
  • Conclusion : between two worlds : an elusive paradigm.