Introduction: Religious Charity
1. The Pious and the Practical: An
Ideology of Charity 9
2. A Cascade of Hospitals 45
3. To Shelter the Pilgrim: Military Orders,
Hospices, and Bridges 89
4. The Hospitaller Orders 126
5. Lay Piety 178
6. Charity That Sanctifies 222
7. The Religious Dimensions of Care 245
Conclusion: Between Two Worlds:
An Elusive Paradigm 267
Bibliography 287