The Editors: John Henderson is Professor of Renaissance History at Birkbeck University of London. His major publications include: Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence (1994, 1997), The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe (with Jon Arrizabalaga and Roger French) (1997), and The Renaissance Hospital: Healing the Body and Healing the Soul (2006).Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway University of London. He is co-author, with Nicholas Purcell, of The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (2000), of which a sequel, Liquid Continents, is in preparation, and author of two forthcoming volumes: The Earliest Hospitals, and Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages. He edited Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity (2000).Alessandro Pastore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Verona. Among his recent books are: Il medico in tribunale. La perizia medica nella procedura penale d’antico regime, secoli XVI-XVIII (1998), Alpinismo e storia d’Italia. Dall’Unità alla Resistenza (2003), and Le regole dei corpi. Medicina e disciplina nell’Italia moderna (2006).

• Contents: John Henderson/Peregrine Horden/Alessandro Pastore: Introduction. The World of the Hospital: Comparisons and Continuities – Peregrine Horden: Alms and the Man: Hospital Founders in Byzantium – Kevin C. Robbins: Patrimony, Trust, and Trusteeship: The Practice and Control of Burgundian Philanthropy at Beaune’s Hôtel-Dieu, c. 1630 – Matthew Thomas Sneider: The Treasury of the Poor: Hospital Finance in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Bologna – Marina Garbellotti: Assets of the Poor, Assets of the City: The Management of Hospital Resources in Verona between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries – Andrea Tanner: Too Many Mothers? Female Roles in a Metropolitan Victorian Children’s Hospital – Carole Rawcliffe: ‘A Word from Our Sponsor’: Advertising the Patron in the Medieval Hospital – Christine Stevenson: Prints ‘proper to shew to Gentlemen’: Representing the British Hospital, c. 1700-50 – Annmarie Adams: ‘That was Then, This is Now’: Hospital Architecture in the Age(s) of Revolution, 1970-2001 – Max Satchell: Towards a Landscape History of the Rural Hospital in England, 1100-1300 – Sergio Onger: The Formation of the Hospital Network in the Brescian Region between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries – Steve Cherry: ‘Keeping your hand in’ and Holding On: General Practitioners and Rural Hospitals in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century East Anglia – Louise Gray: Hospitals and the Lives of the Chronically Sick: Coping with Illness in the Narratives of the Rural Poor in Early Modern Germany – Eric Gruber von Arni: ‘Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis’: The Experience of Sick and Wounded Soldiers during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1642-60 – Flurin Condrau: The Institutional Career of Tuberculosis: Social Policy, Medical Institutions and Patients before World War II – Alysa Levene: Saving the Innocents: Nursing Foundlings in Florence and London in the Eighteenth Century – Diego Ramiro Fariñas: Mortality in Hospitals and Mortality in the City in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain: The Effect on the Measurement of Urban Mortality Rates of the Mortality of Outsiders in Urban Health Institutions.