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Cover -- On Hospitals: Welfare, Law, And Christianity In Western Europe, 400-1320 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List Of Figures And Table -- Abbreviations -- Part I:canon Law And The Revolution In Charity (1150-1250) -- 1 Introduction The Sheep And The Goat -- A Confusion Of Hospitals -- On Canon Law (a European Question) -- Orthodoxies -- Nationalisms -- On Xenodochia, 1100-1320 -- Approach And Structure -- 2 Reading Around The Edges Welfare Houses And The General Councils, 1139-1274 -- Giving Shape To Absence In Canon Law (c.1150-c.1260) The General Councils: Excavating What Has Been Hidden -- The Odd Case Of Lateran Iv (1215) -- Cum Dicat Apostolus At Lateran Iii (1179) -- Lateran Ii (1139) And False Nuns -- Part Ii: A Western Model (400-900) -- 3 The Question Of Francia (400-816) -- Approaches To East And West -- Two Councils, Two Pursuits -- The Council Of Orléans (549) And Necatores Pauperum -- The Aachen Rules For Canons And Canonesses (816) -- 4 Carolingian Lombardy (780-860) -- New Horizons, New Subjects -- The Call For Restauratio -- Finding A Place For Xenodochia -- Regulating Xenodochia -- What Were Xenodochia? Reinstating Its 'pristine State' -- Public Interest And Private Will -- Learning To Talk About Xenodochia -- Dispositio: A Will And Testament -- 5 Roman Law And The Western Tradition -- Abbot Ansegis And Julian's Epitome (826/7) -- East And West: Divergent Paths -- The Inheritance Of The East (c.475-c.535) -- Roman Law In The West (c.400-c.800) -- A Testamentary Institution -- East And West: A New Story -- 6 Carolingian Claims And Innovations -- Potestates: Custody And Supervision -- The Circumscribed Claims Of Palace And Bishop -- A Multiplicity Of Potestates -- Innovations And Interventions Lombardy And Rome -- The Olona Programme (825) -- The Council Of Rome (826) -- Western Francia -- Meaux-paris (845/6) And Pseudo-isidore -- Late Frankish Councils -- Part Iii: Stalking The Borderlands (1100-1320) -- 7 Canonist