"I was sick and you visited me" : the hospital of Saint John in Brussels and its patrons

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on May 28, 2010). ; The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. ; Dissertation advisor: Dr. Lois L. Huneycutt. ; Vita. ; Ph. D. University of Missouri--Columbia 2010. ; To understand medieval urban, societal, and economic changes, one only has to look to hospitals, which were the recipients of donations from medieval burgenses, refuges for the sick and poor, and places where local churchmen a... Mehr ...