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 Soutra Aisle - http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst8386.html Brief mention of the excavation of a 14th-century Augustinian hospital in Scotland, with a photograph of a related standing building. |
 Medieval Hospitals of Oxfordshire - http://www.wantage.com/museum/Local_History/Medieval Hospitals.pdf 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. |
 The Gallery of the Hospital of the Innocents - http://www.arca.net/db/musei/innocent.htm An illustrated description from Your Way to Florence of the gallery set in the early 15th-century orphanage designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. |
 Innocenti Hospital - http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/ospinn.htm 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. |
 MuslimHeritage.com: The Modern Hospital in Medieval Islam - http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=624 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. |
 The Maison Dieu, Dover - http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/history/maisond.asp 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. |
 The History of St Bartholomew's Hospital - http://www.bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk/aboutus/history/barts.asp 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. |
 Maison Dieu, Faversham - http://www.faversham.org/pages/standard.aspx?i_PageID=15845 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. |
 St John's Hospital, Bruges - http://www.trabel.com/brugge/bruges-hospital.htm A history and photographs of this large medieval hospital, now a museum, from Belgium Travel Network. |
 Hotel-Dieu, Beaune, France - http://www.saraphina.com/moseyfr/091599/091599hoteldieu.htm A history, description and expandable thumbnail photographs of this surviving medieval hospital, now a museum, by Canadian visitor Sara Genn. From Saraphina Travelogue. |
 Wikipedia: Ospedale degli Innocenti - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. |
 Wikipedia: English Medieval Hospitals and Almshouses - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_medieval_hospitals_and_almshouses The collaborative encyclopedia offers several articles on individual hospitals or almshouses founded in England in medieval times. |
 Hospices Civils de Beaune - http://www.hospices-de-beaune.com/ 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. |
 Medieval Hospitals of Kent - http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/history/medhist/page16_hospital.html 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. |
 Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury - http://eastbridgehospital.org.uk 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. |
 City of Winchester: Hospital of St Cross - http://www.cityofwinchester.co.uk/history/html/st_cross.html An illustrated history of this almshouse founded in the 1130s by Bishop Henry of Blois for 13 poor men, and enlarged in the 15th century by Cardinal Beaufort. |
 The Hospital of St John the Baptist Bridgwater - http://www.friarn.co.uk/StJohn/ An illustrated history by Peter Cattermole of this medieval hospital closed in 1536. |
 Heritage of Mercy - http://www.buildinghistory.org/Articles/Heritage.htm Jean Manco explains the development of medieval hospitals and almshouses in Britain. Article first published in Medieval History. |