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The English Traveler to Italy
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THE ENGLISH TRAVELER TO ITALY
The Middle Ages (to 1525)
George B Parks originally published in 1954
Although the road to Rome meant a seven week journey on horseback at best, it was probably never so well traveled by Englishmen as in the years from 110 to 1500. In The English Traveler to Italy, Dr. George B. Parks tells the story of the men and women, from the captured king Caractacus to Reginald Cardinal Pole, cousin of Henry VIII, who undertook the arduous journey.
Dr. Parks, has chose three broad topics around which to build a continuity for his narrative – the product of fifteen years of research. The work, supported by many fine illustrations, is primarily a study of travel literature – such narratives and descriptions as the treatise on the sights of Rome written by Master Gregorius, selections from the Rome guidebooks for pilgrims, a moving poem and a letter by Alcuin, and a part of the first book published by an Englishman in Rome – Robert Flemmyng’s, Meditations at Tivoli.
In order to provide a setting for these documents and to better understand their content, Dr. Parks uses a second topic – the history of travel from England to Italy. The flow of visitors included kings, crusaders, soldier exiles, mercenaries, a pope, archbishops and cardinals, bishops, abbots, and simple priests and friars, students, and a few English merchants. We learn about these varied peoples, the routes they too and the changes in the routes down the years, about the times and seasons, the cost, the hardships and dangers, and about the accommodations.
The travel records give rise to Dr. Parks’s third topic, the cultural interchange between the two countries. He discusses the importing into Britain of the Christian religion, then the later interflow of intellectual currents, such as the influence of Bede in Christian learning, the inspiration which Chaucer drew from Dante and Boccaccio, the Renaissance learning which scholars brought back to England.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work:
Title The English Traveler to Italy: The Middle Ages (to 1525)
Author George B Parks
Publisher Stanford University Press 1954
ISBN 080473559X, 9780804735599
IMG_3437 - Hospice catsleep (Morph)
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A Ward Cat on duty. This is Morph.
IMG_3450 - Hospice boots / galoshes/ wellies
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One way to keep your collection of boots. Used by the nurses and aides while showering and bathing patients. Stored in the special bathroom, where the hoists and medical spa-bath were.
Notes On Nursing: What it is, and What it is not
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THE following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others. Every woman, or at least almost every woman, in England has, at one time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid,-in other words, every woman is a nurse. Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It is recognized as the knowledge which every one ought to have-distinct from medical knowledge, which only a profession can have.
If, then, every woman must, at some time or other of her life, become a nurse, i.e., have charge of somebody's health, how immense and how valuable would be the produce of her united experience if every woman would think how to nurse.
I do not pretend to teach her how, I ask her to teach herself,and for this purpose I venture to give her some hints.
Florence Nightingale
This is a wonderful reproduction edition of Nightingale's Notes. Please review the online preview to make sure it meets your expectations.
