Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 The setting I: Rome in the later fourteenth century, 1362–1376
- 2 The setting II: Rome, 1376–1420
- 3 S Thomas's hospice
- 4 S Chrysogonus' hospice and other enterprises
- 5 The laity in Rome
- 6 Women
- 7 The English in the curia 1378–1420: I
- 8 The English in the curia 1378–1420: II
- 9 The career of John Fraunceys
- 10 Adam Easton, an English cardinal: his career
- 11 Adam Easton's ideas and their sources
- 12 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series
3 - S Thomas's hospice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 The setting I: Rome in the later fourteenth century, 1362–1376
- 2 The setting II: Rome, 1376–1420
- 3 S Thomas's hospice
- 4 S Chrysogonus' hospice and other enterprises
- 5 The laity in Rome
- 6 Women
- 7 The English in the curia 1378–1420: I
- 8 The English in the curia 1378–1420: II
- 9 The career of John Fraunceys
- 10 Adam Easton, an English cardinal: his career
- 11 Adam Easton's ideas and their sources
- 12 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series
Summary
At the centre of English activity in Rome in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was the hospital of the Holy Trinity and S Thomas the Martyr, which survived the Reformation to become the present English College. Its origins are obscure, not helped by the loss of some of the basic information about its founders which would help us to uncover their social level. Even their aims are not as clear as they might seem.
In 1362 John Shepherd sold to the English group or guild (universitas Anglorum) in Rome the house which was to be the basis of the hospice of S Thomas. William Chandler who received the house did so
on behalf and in the name of the community and guild of English of the city and of the poor, sick, destitute and wretched persons coming from England in the city.
Neither the name of the guild nor of the new hospital is certain. The earliest names are simply descriptive: for example in July 1363 Rosa Casarola left property ‘to the poor of the hospital of the English newly built in the region of Arenula’. In 1368 testators were leaving bequests ‘to the society of the hospital of the English’.
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- The English in Rome, 1362–1420Portrait of an Expatriate Community, pp. 55 - 76Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000