Bobbio Abbey “had one of the greatest libraries of all the monasteries in the Middle Ages,” says Lauren Mancia, a historian of medieval Christian devotional practices at Brooklyn College in New York.

Many were monastery ... late Middles Ages. In 1524, for example, Henry VII’s Savoy Hospital (founded by the king in 1505) was expected to have a doctor and surgeon. In the Middle Ages the ...

There are a few references relating to the provision of medical care at London hospitals in the late Middle Ages. In 1524, for example, the Savoy Hospital (founded by Henry VII in 1505 ...