How Long to Read The Medieval Hospital

How Long Does it Take to Read The Medieval Hospital?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 13 minutes to read The Medieval Hospital by Nicole R. Rice

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Nicole Rice’s original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation. The hospitals of late medieval England defy easy categorization. They were institutions of charity, medical care, and liturgical commemoration. At the same time, hospitals were cultural spaces sponsoring the performance of drama, the composition of medical texts, and the reading of devotional prose and vernacular poetry. Such practices both reflected and connected the disparate groups—regular religious, ill and poor people, well-off retirees—that congregated in hospitals. Nicole Rice’s The Medieval Hospital offers the first book-length study of the place of hospitals in English literary history and cultural practice. Rice highlights three English hospitals as porous sites whose practices translated into textual engagements with some of urban society’s most pressing concerns: charity, health, devotion, and commerce. Within these institutions, medical compendia treated the alarming bodies of women and religious anthologies translated Augustinian devotional practices for lay readers. Looking outward, religious drama and socially charged poetry publicized and interrogated hospitals’ caring functions within urban charitable economies. Hospitals provided the auspices, audiences, and authors of such disparate literary works, propelling these texts into urban social life. Between ca. 1350 and ca. 1550, English hospitals saw massive changes in their fortunes, from the devastation of the Black Death, to various fifteenth-century reform initiatives, to the creeping dissolutions of religious houses under Henry VIII and Edward VI. This volume investigates how hospitals defined and defended themselves with texts and in some cases reinvented themselves, using literary means to negotiate changed religious landscapes.

How long is The Medieval Hospital?

The Medieval Hospital by Nicole R. Rice is 551 pages long, and a total of 138,301 words.

This makes it 186% the length of the average book. It also has 169% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Medieval Hospital Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 35 minutes to read The Medieval Hospital aloud.

What Reading Level is The Medieval Hospital?

The Medieval Hospital is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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