| dc.description.abstract | The monastic hospital of San Salvatore-Santa Giulia in Brescia was the expression of
the Benedectine rule to welcome the other as if it were Christ, especially the poorest
and pilgrims. It was part of the Lombard Royal foundations and through the early
Middle Ages came till the Modern Age, managing hospitality and charity for the benefit
of the community and for the salvation of one’s soul, tranforming from xenodochium
into hospitale nobilium, therefore into hospitale pauperum et infirmorum, manteining
representative functions at first and then welfare. It also provided an obligatory and
anticipatory model for the foundation of hospitale magnum of lay matrix, working
tirelessly for eight centuries through a community of confreres led by a female
administrator or minister.
Key words: monastic hospital, benedectine rule, hospitality and charity, poors and
pilgrims, female administrator. | it_IT |
