The English Hospital 10701570 Author:Nicholas Orme, Margaret Webster This book-the first general history of medieval and Tudor hospitals in eighty-five years-traces when and why they originated and follows their development through the crisis periods of the Black Death and the English Reformation when many disappeared. Nicholas Orme and Margaret Webster explore the hospitals` religious, charitable, and medical fu... more »nctions, examine their buildings, staffing, and finances, and reconstruct daily life in the hospitals.« less